18 research outputs found

    Schönheitsdiskurse in der Literatur des Mittelalters

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    This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating to the physical beauty of literary figures. It looks at both canonic and more marginal Middle High German poems (Erec, Parzival, Welscher Gast [The Romance Stranger]) as well as their Medieval Latin context (poetorhetorics) and their discursive matrix, which is based in theology

    Schönheitsdiskurse in der Literatur des Mittelalters

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    Between Slaughterfest and Passion. Reception of Orphean Subject-Matter in the Hamburg Opera House

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    The paper presents the opera as a musical and literary genre that is closely linked to principles of intertextuality. In a twofold analysis various examples of the Hamburg Opera – including Reinhard Keiser’s Der Angenehme Betrug/ oder: Der Carneval von Venedig (1707) and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Die wunderbare BestĂ€ndigkeit der Liebe, oder Orpheus (1726) – are re-evaluated in the context of French opera as well as protestant German Passiontide literature.</jats:p
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