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Aspects of the performative in medieval culture /

The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authors...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gragnolati, Manuele, Suerbaum, Almut
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2010.
©2010
Colección:Trends in medieval philology ; v. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Medieval Culture 'betwixt and between': An introduction
  • I. 'Pr228;senzeffekte': Performing the Penitential Psalms in the Middle Ages
  • 'Remember me in your prayers': Reading the Church Slavonic Psalter as an act of commemoration
  • Performing Parliament in the Rotuli Parliamentorum
  • II. Performing the self: Constructions of authorial identity
  • Scurrilitas: Sex, magic, and the performance of fictionality in Anselm of Besate's Rhetorimachia
  • Authorship and performance in Dante's Vita nova
  • Paradoxes of performance: Autobiography in the songs of Hugo von Montfort and Oswald von Wolkenstein
  • Performative desires: Sereni's re-staging of Dante and Petrarch
  • III. Embodied voice: Reading and re-reading
  • Singing Sweetly to the Virgin: Josquin's Inviolata
  • Re-presenting set-piece description in the courtly romance: Hartmann's adaptation of Chr233;tien's Erec et Enide.
  • 'Ich pin der haid Aristotiles. ein exempel nemend des': Performing Aristotle's lessons
  • Dante's reception in German literature: a question of performance?
  • List of abbreviations
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.