The presentation of authorship in medieval German narrative literature 1220-1290 /

This work sheds light on the complexity of medieval German literary culture as it evolved in the course of the thirteenth century (c.1220-1290) by analysing the attitudes of narrative poets towards the issue of authorship.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coxon, Sebastian
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 2001.
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Author in the Text
  • pt. I. Authorship at the Heart of Literary Tradition. 2. Rudolf von Ems and the Art of Authorial Self-reference. 3. Patronage, Co-operation, and Artistic Self-assurance: Aspects of Authorship in the Narrative Works of Konrad von Wurzburg
  • pt. II. Authorship on the Boundary with Orality. 4. The Author Displaced, the Author Restored: The Case of the Later Heroic Epic. 5. Expansive and Cursory Presentation of Authorship in the Secular Short Story. 6. Conclusion: The Medieval Author in the Text.