Title data
Wagner, Silvan:
How to become an “edelez herze” : Interpassivity and the art of playing the game of collectively received narratives (not only) within the Middle Ages.
In: Continental Thought & Theory.
Vol. 2
(2018)
Issue 1
.
- pp. 63-90.
ISSN 2463 -333X
Abstract in another language
In the movie Ocean’s Twelve, two protagonists represent two very different ways to receive a complex story: You can try very hard to interact mentally – and fail on a more or less high level (like ‘Linus Caldwell’); or you can fake a mental interaction and assure just after the twist of the story that you already knew it (like ‘Bruce Willis’). In the latter case – and if the fake succeeds – you will be objectively clever and participate in the benefits of the people who really knew it – whether they exist in reality or not. This special variation of interpassivity is not only a more or less lame game for the reception of postmodern movies: There are hints enough to assume that the Middle High German literature strongly promoted interpassive cleverness. And for the courtly audience of a medieval literary performance, the showmanship was way more important than for the audience of a today’s movie. So, medieval narratives gave the opportunity of two complementary games of reception: Interactive engaging and interpassive participating. The prize for both games is ‘ courtly merriment’, a fundamental condition to be part of the court. These games of reception of collectively received narratives shall be shown using the example of Gottfrieds von Strassburg Tristan and other medieval narratives.
Further data
Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Institutions of the University: | Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair German Medieval Studies Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Former Professors > Chair Early German Philology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Former Professors |
Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
DDC Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and psychology > 190 Modern Western philosophy 800 Literature 800 Literature > 800 Literature, rhetoric, criticism 800 Literature > 830 German and related literatures |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2018 06:24 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2018 06:24 |
URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/44534 |