Longs, Shorts, and Shouts: Attitudes and Strategies in Poetry and Narrative

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)

Organizer Name

Evelyn Meyer; Joseph M. Sullivan; Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

Organizer Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.; Univ. of Oklahoma; Appalachian State Univ.

Presider Name

Joseph M. Sullivan

Paper Title 1

Aha-Experiences in Middle High German Poetry? The Case of Frauenlob

Presenter 1 Name

Matthias Meyer

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. Wien

Paper Title 2

One Tenth of Tandareis: On Characters and Programmatic Reduction of Arthurian Literature

Presenter 2 Name

Lena Zudrell

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. Wien

Paper Title 3

"Long Hair, Little Sense": Revisiting the Proverbial Stereotype

Presenter 3 Name

Olga V. Trokhimenko

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of North Carolina-Wilmington

Paper Title 4

Respondent

Presenter 4 Name

Joseph M. Sullivan

Start Date

11-5-2019 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1220

Description

Presenters in this session explore discourse and structural elements in medieval German Romances, in comparing a Middle High German and Czech text, and with an idiom in a broad medieval context, including medieval Latin and several vernacular languages,. The presenters focus in particular on the impact of speech acts on their chosen narrative text(s). Evelyn Meyer