Medieval things : agency, materiality, and narratives of objects in medieval German literature and beyond /

Medieval Things brings together a theoretically informed and politically engaged new materialist approach to famous and forgotten German narratives from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, including Wolfram of Eschenbach's Parzival and the epic Song of the Nibelungs, and sets them in their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bildhauer, Bettina (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Series:	Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subjects:	German literature > Middle High German, 1050-1500 > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Literature, Medieval > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Agent (Philosophy) in literature. Material culture in literature. Object (Philosophy) in literature.

Table of Contents:

Shine and the agency of things: the non-fetishistic agency and narrative aesthetics of shiny things
Nets and materiality: nets as test cases for materiality and metaphors for narrative
Thing biographies and narration: the narrative constitution of the agency of things
Rings and the spectrum of human and non-human agency: the agency of things and of female and non-Christian humans
Treasure, grail, and the value of pragmacentric readings: agency as unavailability and trajectory
Conclusion: The agency of things reconfigured.