Rache – Zorn – Neid

Zur Faszination negativer Emotionen in der Kultur und Literatur des Mittelalters

Contributions by Martin Baisch Contributions by Fabian Bernhard Contributions by Evamaria Freienhofer Contributions by Claudia Lauer Contributions by Hendrikje Lehmann Contributions by Eva Lieberich Contributions by Sebastian Möckel Contributions by Nina Nowakowski Contributions by Klaus Ridder Contributions by Beatrice Trînca Edited by Martin Baisch Edited by Evamaria Freienhofer Edited by Eva Lieberich Series edited by Martin Baisch Series edited by Michael Mecklenburg Series edited by Johannes Keller Series edited by Matthias Meyer Series edited by Elke Koch Series edited by Florian Kragl Series edited by Andrea Sieber

Book cover: Rache – Zorn – Neid

Extent: 237 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: aventiuren

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(February 2014)

ISBN: 9783847101246

6.54 x 9.49 inches

Price: $74.00

In stock

English summary: Vengeance, anger and envy are negative emotions crucial to medieval literature and culture. They are social emotions with destructive as well as constructive potential, that is to say, they created and stabilized but also destroyed communities at that time. The contributors to this volume analyse the specific shape of these emotions and the multiple poetic functions they fulfill in courtly romances, comic tales and lyric poetry of the Middle Ages. German description: Im Fokus des Bandes stehen mit Rache, Zorn und Neid negative Emotionen, die in der Literatur und Kultur des Mittelalters einen zentralen Stellenwert einnehmen. Es sind soziale Gefuhle, die in den damaligen Gesellschaften destruktive wie konstruktive Potenzen entwickeln konnten, d.h. sie wirkten gemeinschaftsbildend und -absichernd wie gemeinschaftsauflosend. In den Untersuchungen des Bandes, die sich dem hofischen Roman wie dem Minnesang und auch der Novellistik widmen, werden die spezifischen Konturen dieser Emotionen und ihre vielfaltigen poetischen Funktionen analysiert.

Dr. des. Evamaria Freienhofer promoviert zum Thema Dynamiken von Zorn, Macht und Herrschaft in Texten des 12. Jahrhunderts. Eva Lieberich arbeitet an ihrer Promotion zum Thema Neid als (un-)soziale Emotion in narrativen Texten des Hochmittelalters.

  • Contributions by Martin Baisch
  • Contributions by Fabian Bernhard
  • Contributions by Evamaria Freienhofer
  • Contributions by Claudia Lauer
  • Contributions by Hendrikje Lehmann
  • Contributions by Eva Lieberich
  • Contributions by Sebastian Möckel
  • Contributions by Nina Nowakowski
  • Contributions by Klaus Ridder
  • Contributions by Beatrice Trînca
  • Edited by Martin Baisch
  • Edited by Evamaria Freienhofer
  • Edited by Eva Lieberich
  • Series edited by Martin Baisch
  • Series edited by Michael Mecklenburg
  • Series edited by Johannes Keller
  • Series edited by Matthias Meyer
  • Series edited by Elke Koch
  • Series edited by Florian Kragl
  • Series edited by Andrea Sieber