Bodies of Pain: Suffering in the Works of Hartmann Von Aue

ISBN-13: 9780415939621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 226 str.

Scott E. Pincikowski

Opis

This study provides a re-evaluation of the role of pain and suffering in Hartmann von Aue. By critically combining traditional philology with modern theoretical analysis, drawing on theorists such as Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias and Elaine Scarry, Scott E. Pincikowski shows how the body is symbolically structured in Hartmann's work to create a distinctly medieval signification system of pain. This system is analysed through an examination of the physical body and social body of the court, and the harmonious and refined image of courtly society as depicted in Hartmann's work where it is shown that the very ideological system that informs courtly life causes suffering in both the physical and social bodies.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Body in Pain; Chapter 2 es tete im an dem lîbe wê: The Physical Body in Pain in Hartmann von Aue; Chapter 3 mîn vleiscb ist sô unreine: The Male Body in Pain in Gregorius and the Arme Heinrich; Chapter 4 vil wîplîchen si dô leit: The Female Body in Pain; Chapter 5 ouwê, diz vole ist starke unvrô: The Social Body and Pain in Hartmann von Aue’s Works; Conclusion: nâch disem ellende. / hie hât diz liet ein ende;

O autorze

Scott E. Pincikowski