Walter Haug Book order

The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set a new agenda for the study of medieval literary theory. Rather than seeing vernacular writers' reflections on their art, such as are found in prologues, epilogues and interpolations in literary texts, as merely deriving from established Latin traditions, Walter Haug shows that they marked the gradual emancipation of an independent vernacular poetics that went hand in hand with changing narrative forms. While focussing primarily on medieval German writers, Haug also takes into account French literature of the same period, and the principles underlying his argument are equally relevant to medieval literature in English or any other European language. This ground-breaking study is now available in English for the first time.

Frontmatter -- Musische und monastische Existenz: Petrarcas 1. Ekloge -- Metamorphosen des Mythos. Petrarcas Kanzone ›Nel dolce tempo‹ (Rime XXIII) -- Die lateinischen Zitate in ›Piers Plowman‹. Intertextualität und Traditionalität -- »Quha wait gif all that Chauceir wrait was trew« – Auctor and auctoritas in 15th Century English Literature -- Mythos und Herrschaft: Maximilian I. als Hercules Germanicus -- Jörg Wickrams ›Ritter Galmy‹. Die Zähmung des Romans als Ursprung seiner Möglichkeit -- ›Alt‹ und ›neu‹ in der Epochenerfahrung um 1500. Ansätze zur kulturgeschichtlichen Periodisierung in frühneuhochdeutschen Texten -- Zwischen Ontologie und Rhetorik. Die Idee des movere animos und der Übergang vom Spätmittelalter zur frühen Neuzeit in der Musikgeschichte -- The disfigured self-portraits of Hans Baidung Grien