Published by De Gruyter

Schriften der Internationalen Artusgesellschaft

Edited by: Cora Dietl, Klaus Ridder, Brigitte Burrichter, Nathanael Busch, Friedrich Wolfzettel and Joerg Fichte

ISSN: 1869-7070

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Die Artusforschung, die sich mit der Gründung der Internationalen Artusgesellschaft 1948 ein Forum geschaffen hat, dient der Erschließung der gemeinsamen kulturellen Grundlagen Europas. Mit rund 250 mittelalterlichen Werken in zehn verschiedenen Sprachen gehört der Artusroman fraglos zu den erfolgreichsten epischen Genres des europäischen Mittelalters ‑ mit einer bis heute ungebrochenen Tradition der produktiven Rezeption. Ursprünglich regional-politische Dichtung mit Bezug auf eine ältere mündliche Erzähltradition, wurde die Artusliteratur bald zu einem Forum der überregionalen Wertediskussion, zum Raum der sozialen oder kultu-rellen Identitätsfindung oder zum Experimentierfeld literarischer Formen.
Die Bände der deutsch-österreichischen Sektion der Artusgesellschaft führen die verschiedenen Forschungsperspektiven der Philologien, die sich mit Artusliteratur befassen, jeweils an einer zentralen Fragestellung zusammen. Die Bände fragen nach der Relevanz von in der aktuellen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft diskutierten Begriffen (wie z. B. „Mythos“, „Körperkonzepte“) für die Artusforschung und nach dem Beitrag, den die aufgrund ihrer Fächervielfalt und Interdisziplinarität grundsätzlich multiperspektivische Artusforschung für die weltweite kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Forschung leisten kann.

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B. Burrichter, Würzburg; N. Busch, Siegen; C. Dietl, Gießen; J.O. Fichte u. K.s Ridder, Tübingen; F. Wolfzettel, Frankfurt am Main.

Book 2022

Artusroman und Bildlichkeit

Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze, Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 17 in this series

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Images make what is absent present and validate it. Fiction therefore seems to encourage visual fantasy in particular. This volume examines the broad spectrum of imagery in Arthurian romances: image cycles, combinations of text and image in manuscripts and printed texts, how images are addressed in texts, and text-"images," all of which can help to shape the plot, serve as intertextual references, or encourage poetological reflection.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110769982
ISBN:: 9783110769982
ISBN:: 9783110770063
ISBN:: 9783110768381
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Probleme des Artusromans

Ausgewählte kleine Schriften

Friedrich Wolfzettel, Brigitte Burrichter, Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze

Volume 16 in this series

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This volume gathers together a selection of minor works by Friedrich Wolfzettel on Arthurian literature in Romance-speaking Europe. Thirteen contributions that deal with overarching issues have been selected from the almost 50 essays that Wolfzettel published on Arthurian topics. The volume also contains two unpublished studies and a comprehensive introduction that contextualizes Wolfzettel’s work within research history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694567
ISBN:: 9783110694567
ISBN:: 9783110693027
ISBN:: 9783110694635
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Jenseits der Epigonalität

Selbst- und Fremdbewertungen im Artusroman und in der Artusforschung

Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze, Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 15 in this series

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Where does one draw the line between réécriture and epigonality? How do authors of Arthurian romance situate their own work between tradition and innovation? What criteria does literary scholarship later apply to classify an Arthurian romance as “masterful” or “epigonal”? The volume explores key instances of the shifting evaluation of Arthurian texts and the fundamental valency of literary judgment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698183
ISBN:: 9783110698183
ISBN:: 9783110697285
ISBN:: 9783110698275
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Réécriture und Rezeption

Wandlungen des Artusromans

Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze, Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 14 in this series

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King Arthur could only develop into a modern “myth” because the Arthurian literature created in the High Middle Ages was continuously recreated over the centuries. This volume uses the key concepts of “réécriture” and “reception” to investigate how individual Arthurian romances were transmitted, processed, re-wrote, and received in the Late Middle Ages, in early modernity, and through the 20^th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110628104
ISBN:: 9783110628104
ISBN:: 9783110626742
ISBN:: 9783110626803
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman

Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze, Friedrich Wolfzettel, Lena Zudrell

Volume 13 in this series

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Are the actions of literary figures motivated by emotion or are they instead shaped by narrative and literary constraints? The essays in this volume show how emotion and action in Arthurian romance novels are mediated by narrative factors – as is revealed, for example, when the author plays with the amount of information shared with the reader, references prior knowledge held by the reader, or violates cultural or literary norms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110536058
ISBN:: 9783110536058
ISBN:: 9783110534917
ISBN:: 9783110534948
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Formen arthurischen Erzählens

Vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart

Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze

Volume 12 in this series

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The essays assembled in this volume illuminate various facets of Arthurian narrative. They compare narrative aspects of French and German Arthurian literature from the medieval period, address questions surrounding the réécriture ("rewriting") of Arthurian legend in the Late Middle Ages, and explore how the Arthurian tradition has "lived on" in other narrative formats, including musical theater, film, and the contemporary novel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110488173
ISBN:: 9783110488173
ISBN:: 9783110486629
ISBN:: 9783110487008
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Gattungsinterferenzen

Der Artusroman im Dialog

Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze, Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 11 in this series

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The Arthurian romance is often regarded as the prototype of medieval awareness of genre, and from the start, has interconnected with typical elements from other literary genres. Conversely, Arthurian elements and structures are not restricted to the Arthurian romance. The essays, which explore this thematic area in detailed case studies, focus on the effects exerted by these almost programmatically integrated "dialogues."

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110462128
ISBN:: 9783110462128
ISBN:: 9783110461961
ISBN:: 9783110462036
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Ironie, Polemik und Provokation

Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze, Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 10 in this series

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This work explores varying concepts of irony in Arthurian romance. It looks at the places where irony is linked to other forms of improper speech and criticism, is transformed into polemic or serves to provoke, and where it suggests a social function of literature. The volume thus casts new light on medieval narrative as well as on the “modern” literary phenomenon of irony.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343915
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034374-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034391-5
ISBN:: 9783110374261
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Rhetoric
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Aktuelle Tendenzen der Artusforschung

Brigitte Burrichter, Matthias Däumer, Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze, Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 9 in this series

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Sixty-five years after the founding of the International Arthurian Society, Arthurian researchers are examining how they can contribute to modern cultural and literary studies. Using the example of several European Arthurian epics, the articles in this volume explore key questions from diverse fields, including gender studies, spirituality research, literary sociology, violence research, narratology, and media cultural science.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310795
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031070-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031079-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Artusroman und Mythos

Friedrich Wolfzettel, Cora Dietl, Matthias Däumer

Volume 8 in this series

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“Arthurian myth” is a frequently used term. But what is a ‘myth’? The current discussion of the term in the field of German studies is here opened up to interdisciplinary consideration. Focusing on Arthurian literature, the volume considers which interpretation of ‘myth’ is appropriate to which phenomena. Both content-related and structural definitions of myth are examined, with particular scrutiny of the mythic substrate in Arthurian romances and the various individual approaches to mythical narrative forms. It becomes clear that no definition of ‘myth’ is possible beyond one pertaining to the individual text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263503
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026252-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026350-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Artushof und Artusliteratur

Matthias Däumer, Cora Dietl, Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 7 in this series

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The court of King Arthur, the center of the Arthurian romances that were so popular in the Middle Ages, is illuminated anew in this book from an interdisciplinary perspective as an institution which is fictionally staged, stabilized and problematized. The book explores the forces, figures and positions that constitute or endanger the court as a picture of society in miniature or as a literary experiment. Finally, the contributions critically question the ›ideality‹ of the court of King Arthur and investigate the function and reception of the court even in contexts remote from courts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221367
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022135-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022136-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Körperkonzepte im Arturischen Roman

Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 6 in this series

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The volume assembles papers delivered at the conference of the German section of the International Arthurian Society in 2005, which was devoted to the problem of corporeality in the medieval and late medieval Arthurian romance. The topic has received much attention in recent medieval studies. Here it is dealt with for the first time both from a consistently genre-historical perspective and from a comparative and interdisciplinary one. The spectrum of themes addressed ranges from concrete and metaphorical corporeality, affectivity and emotionality, and symbolic body forms to problems of "corporate" identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944860
ISBN:: 978-3-484-10806-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094486-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 2003

Das Wunderbare in der arthurischen Literatur

Probleme und Perspektiven

Friedrich Wolfzettel

Volume 5 in this series

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Miraculous phenomena as an integral feature of Arthurian literature have always been a central focus of research, notably in approaches centering on the history of motifs and sources, and those with a structural bent. But with the new concern for issues posed by the history of mentality, problems of acculturation and functionalization have moved to centre stage. Francis Dubost's theories on the fantastic play a cardinal role in this development. These proceedings of an interdisciplinary research colloquium of the German section of the International Arthurian Society discuss the state of research at present and emphasize the broad historical basis for miraculous elements in literature from the High Middle Ages to the modern age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110939859
ISBN:: 978-3-484-64024-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093985-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Erzählstrukturen der Artusliteratur

Forschungsgeschichte und neue Ansätze

Friedrich Wolfzettel, Peter Ihring

Volume 4 in this series

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The apparently vague and certainly hackneyed term 'structure' has become a terminally ubiquitous 'hardly perennial' in the research on Arthurian romance in verse and prose. Unlike orally derived epic poetry, early Arthurian romance already evolved an identity as an individually under-written, authorial, consciously fictional, and - in tendency at least - autonomous structure or 'conjointure' in its own right. Thus from the outset Arthurian research revolved around problems of form and in the course of its history attempted (not least under influence of the respectively prevalent research paradigms) to develop and/or draw on narrative models for the purpose of casting light on Arthurian structural regularities. The most famous instance of this is certainly the 'dual path theory', adumbrated by Wilhelm Kellermann, developing into a paradigm in post-mar research and justifying the positing of an 'Arthurian structure' (Hugo Kuhn). Looking back at the end of the 20th century on the various separate stages of Arthurian research, and exactly 50 years after the establishment of the International Arthurian Society, the German Section of the Society felt it incumbent upon itself to essay a stock-taking retrospect and combine a critical review of earlier research findings with an attempt at new approaches taking research on this subject on into the future.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950090
ISBN:: 978-3-484-64010-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095009-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag