ISBN: 9780268041090 - reading the medieval book: word, image, and performance in wolfram von eschenbach's willehalm (poetics of orality & literacy) (9 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm was a 13th-century epic of conflict between Christian and Saracen at the time of the crusades. Highly popular among medieval audiences it survives in various forms. This study examines a rather unusual illustrated version of Willehalm, composed about fifty years after the original, three-fifths of which contains illustrative material. Kathryn Starkey highlights the relationship between word, image and performance in this manuscript, and argues that the images of the narrator which gesture towards the audience are not incidental illustrations of the events, actions and plots of the story. Rather, they are an attempt by eschenbach to include performative elements which are lost when an oral text is written down. It is this deliberate dialogue between text and its audeince, communicated through imagery, which forms the basis of discussion. …

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Paperback. Condición: Good. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm was a 13th-century epic of conflict between Christian and Saracen at the time of the crusades. Highly popular among medieval audiences it survives in various forms. This study examines a rather unusual illustrated version of Willehalm, composed about fifty years after the original, three-fifths of which contains illustrative material. Kathryn Starkey highlights the relationship between word, image and performance in this manuscript, and argues that the images of the narrator which gesture towards the audience are not incidental illustrations of the events, actions and plots of the story. Rather, they are an attempt by eschenbach to include performative elements which are lost when an oral text is written down. It is this deliberate dialogue between text and its audeince, communicated through imagery, which forms the basis of discussion. …

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Condición: New. Examines one of the most important epic poems of thirteenth-century Germany and its redaction in a richly illustrated manuscript created just fifty-five years after the poem's composition. Series: Poetics of Orality & Literacy S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2004. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condición: New. Examines one of the most important epic poems of thirteenth-century Germany and its redaction in a richly illustrated manuscript created just fifty-five years after the poem's composition. Series: Poetics of Orality & Literacy S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2004. paperback. . . . .…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. xiii + 239pp, illustrated, soft cover, 8vo, very good condition, University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, USA, 2004. * an exciting contribution to the history of vernacular reading - a persuasive exploration of this mysterious and fragmentary 13th century manuscript captures an important transitional moment in the development of reading culture and the literary manuscript. ILLUSTRATED (ilustrador).…