Kampf, Streit und Konkurrenz

Wettkämpfe als Erzählformen der Pluralisierung in Mären

By (author) Martin Schneider

Book cover: Kampf, Streit und Konkurrenz

Extent: 281 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: aventiuren

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2019)

ISBN: 9783847110187

6.34 x 9.25 inches

Price: $74.00

In stock

Der Band zu einer differenzorientierten Mediavistik legt durch die Analyse ausgewahlter Einzeltexte und Werkreihen die Pluralisierung sozialer und kultureller Systeme durch Wettkampfe in der Marendichtung offen.


Diversity can arise where value is countered by value without ambiguity being collected in the same turn. The work examines the representation of competitive cultures within the late medieval German comic tales (Mare), in which the pluralization of social and cultural orders is narrated. Combat, strife and rivalry are, at first glance, simple social forms in which actors of at least two different positions compete against each other. But even simple-structured forms of competition can quickly become more complex if they oscillate outwards; alternating sequences can be stabilized in repeaters or run into asymmetrical outcomes of victory and defeat.

Dr. Martin Schneider studierte Germanistik, allgemeine Pädagogik und evangelische Theologie in Mainz und Berlin. An der Universität Konstanz erforscht er kulturelle Pluralisierungen im Spätmittelalter.

  • By (author) Martin Schneider