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Imagining the text : ekphrasis and envisioning courtly identity in Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois /
James Brown examines ekphrasis-the verbal representation of a visual representation-in Wirnt von Gravenberg's thirteenth-century Arthurian romance Wigalois, one of the most popular and enduring stories in the Middle High German literary tradition. Through close reading of the text and examining...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Visualising the Middle Ages ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Imagining the Text; Wigalois and Ekphrasis; What Was Ekphrasis?; Wigalois: Summary and Reception; Chapter Outline; Part 1; Imagining the Text; Chapter 1; Ekphrasis as a Structuring Device; Dividing the Narrative; Ekphrasis as a Structuring Device; Setting the Stage: The Magic Belt; From Boy to Man, Part One: The Stone of Virtue; From Boy to Man, Part Two: The Golden Wheel; Through God All Things Are Possible: Japhite's Tomb; The Final Stages: Larie's Tent; Conclusion; Chapter 2; Ekphrasis as an Integrative Device.
- Ekphrasis and Integration Harmonizing Families and Fictional Worlds: The Magic Belt; Arthurian and Faerie Realms in Wigalois; Integrating the Arthurian and the Wondrous; The Stone and the Arthurian Circle; The Golden Wheel and Religious Elements; Triuwe and Riuwe: Japhite's Tomb; The Tent and the Final Harmonization; Conclusion; Chapter 3; Ekphrasis and Courtly Identity; Courtly Identity and Self-representation; Courtly Ideals and Romance; Ekphrasis and Courtly Identity in Wigalois; Ekphrastic Belts and the Construction of Courtly Femininity.
- The Magic Belt and Chivalric Masculinity The Stone and Storytelling; Gwigalois's Wheel and the Literary Uses of Heraldry; The Tomb's Inscription and Courtly Literary Culture; Larie's Tent, Courtliness, and Virtual Splendor; Conclusion; Part 2; The Text Imagined ; Chapter 4; Ekphrasis and Visualization Strategies in the Illustrated Wigalois Manuscripts; Heraldry and Integration: Manuscript B; Basic Description of the Manuscript; Heraldic Visualization; Integration in Manuscript B; Didactic hövescheit: Codex Donaueschingen 71; Basic Description of the Manuscript.
- The Role of the Captions Deictic and Didactic Visualization; Conclusion; Chapter 5; Re-imagining Narrative in Wigoleis vom Rade; The Strassburg Wigoleis and Its Layout; A Reconceived Text for a New Audience; A Question of Literary Quality?; Different Audiences; Reading and Literacy; Visuality, Structure, and Narrative; Eyewitnessing and a New Attitude toward Description; Woodcut and Caption: Guiding and Linking; Narrative and Illustrative Simplification; Envisioning Courtliness in the Strassburg Woodcuts; Conclusion; Chapter 6.
- Literature and Legitimization: The Wigalois Frescoes at Runkelstein Castle Material Visualizations of German Vernacular Literature; The Vintler Brothers and the Murals at Runkelstein; Ernst Karl von Waldstein and the Wigalois Frescoes; Description of the Wigalois Images at Runkelstein; Why Wigalois? Possible Interpretations; Conclusion: Understanding the Book; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations.