Re-Membering the Present - Maria Dobozy

The Medieval German Poet-Minstrel in Cultural Context

KORTE INHOUD

This book examines the social and cultural conditions that governed performance art in the German Middle Ages from 1170 to 1400. Poet-performers are central to understanding both literature and performance art because these entertainers, more than any other group, influenced the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of the medieval poetic oeuvre. Performance theory is used as a framework throughout. Since no social history of poet-performers exists in English, part I presents a social history that re-examines what is known about social status, cultural image and employment. Part II investigates the affective nature of performance and focuses on poet-composer-performers. This study argues that the techniques and principles of performance (body movement, gesture, voice modulation, instrumentation) and the goals of creating a memorable, even electrifying experience for audiences determine the performer's lifestyle and also the thematic and rhetorical strategies of their compositions. The itinerant poet-per...
2005Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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2005Uitgever: Brepols Publishers353 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503515169ISBN-13: 9782503515168

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