Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700-1600 - (Sense, Matter, and Medium) by Jutta Eming & Kathryn Starkey (Paperback)
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- The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700-1600).
- About the Author: Jutta Eming, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
- 287 Pages
- Literary Criticism, European
- Series Name: Sense, Matter, and Medium
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The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700-1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim's letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue's Erec, Heinrich of Neustadt's Apollonius of Tyre, Luís de Camões's Os Lusíadas, and the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often foregrounding the intersection between the material and the immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled, in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted engagement in human life.From the Back Cover
The chapters in this book examine a wide variety of premodern European things and representations of things dating from ca. 700 to 1600 CE. One central question emerges from all the chapters, which otherwise differ significantly in approach: How might we characterize and analyze the intersection and interplay between a thing's material and immaterial qualities?About the Author
Jutta Eming, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.61 Inches (H) x 6.69 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.02 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 287
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: European
Series Title: Sense, Matter, and Medium
Publisher: De Gruyter
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Paperback
Author: Jutta Eming & Kathryn Starkey
Language: English
Street Date: October 24, 2023
TCIN: 1005018706
UPC: 9783111358659
Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-4542
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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