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Medieval Listening and Reading
Dennis Howard Green
其他書名
The Primary Reception of German Literature 800-1300
出版Cambridge University Press, 1994-08-25
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / GermanLiterary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN05214449349780521444934
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e5opJSEmaBoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This study brings recent scholarly debates on oral cultures and literate societies to bear on the earliest recorded literature in German (800-1300). It considers the criteria for assessing what works were destined for listeners, what examples anticipated readers, and how for both modes of reception could apply to one work, exploring the possible interplay between them. The opening chapters review previous scholarship and the introduction of writing into preliterate Germany. The core of the book presents lexical and non-lexical evidence for the different modes of reception, taken from the whole spectrum of genres, from dance songs to liturgy, from drama and heroic literature to the court narrative and lyric poetry. The social contexts of reception and the physical process of reading books are also considered. Two concluding chapters explore the literary and historical implications of the slow interpenetration of orality and literacy. There is a comprehensive bibliographical index of primary sources.