Scheitern in der Vormoderne

Narrative Konzeptionalisierungen in Literatur und Historiographie

Edited by Margit Dahm Edited by Andreas Bihrer Edited by Timo Felber

Book cover: Scheitern in der Vormoderne

Extent: 515 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Encomia Deutsch

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(March 2024)

ISBN: 9783847116752

6.1 x 9.13 inches

Price: $87.00

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Das Erzahlen vom Scheitern wird in verschiedenen narrativen Texten der Vormoderne als Moment der Sinnstiftung produktiv gemacht und erweist sich als Reflexionsfigur mit weitreichender kultureller Signifikanz.


Failure is a fundamental human experience, and narrating failure is also a phenomenon that transcends time. The contributions in this volume examine the narrative engagement with failure in various literary and historiographical genres of the pre-modern period and show what functions, aims and possible meanings are associated with it. They also investigate ways of coping with failure through strategies of explanation, repulse, or reinterpretation, with a special focus on transcendental patterns. Failure is also examined in its rhetorical stagings and its poetological dimensions. The narrative of failure proves to be a productive moment of meaning-making and a figure of reflection with far-reaching cultural significance.

JProf. Dr. Margit Dahm lehrt Deutsche Literatur des hohen und späten Mittelalters an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

  • Edited by Margit Dahm
  • Edited by Andreas Bihrer
  • Edited by Timo Felber