Examines one of the most important epic poems of thirteenth-century Germany and its redaction in a richly illustrated manuscript created just fifty-five years after the poem's composition. Series: Poetics of Orality & Literacy S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2004. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Reading the Medieval Book: Word, Image, and Performance in Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm (Poetics of Orality & Literacy)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0268041091
ISBN 13: 9780268041090
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm was a 13th-century epic of conflict between Christian and Saracen at the time of the crusades. Highly popular among medieval audiences it survives in various forms. This study examines a rather unusual illustrated version of Willehalm , composed about fifty years after the original, three-fifths of which contains illustrative material. Kathryn Starkey highlights the relationship between word, image and performance in this manuscript, and argues that the images of the narrator which gesture towards the audience are not incidental illustrations of the events, actions and plots of the story. Rather, they are an attempt by eschenbach to include performative elements which are lost when an oral text is written down. It is this deliberate dialogue between text and its audeince, communicated through imagery, which forms the basis of discussion.

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Kathryn Starkey is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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