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Author:

Bildhauer, Bettina, author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2003080392

Title:

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

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xiv, 223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1050-1500
German literature--Middle High German, 1050-1500--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Literature, Medieval--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Object (Philosophy) in literature.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Literature, Medieval--Theory, etc.
Material culture in literature.
Object (Philosophy) in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.

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.

Summary:

"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 global context"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Interventions: new studies in medieval culture

ISBN:

0814214258
9780814214251

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1141034010

LCCN:

2019058509

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)