Studien zu ausgewählten Fastnachtspielen des Hans Folz

Struktur – Autorschaft – Quellen

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At the threshold of modernism, the artisan poet Hans Folz plays a significant role as author and printer in the cultural center of Nuremberg. Part of his multifaceted oeuvre includes at least 18 carnival plays (Fastnachtspiele) that are currently being …

Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power

A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry

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A study of the Persian poetry of Muḥammad Iqbāl (1877-1938), today Pakistan’s national poet, this work identifies the position his poems occupied between tradition and modernity, specifying the appeal they held for his contemporaries. Drawing on structural text analysis, the …

The Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Mahmud Darwish

A Comparative Study

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A comparative analysis of the work of the South African poet Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) and the Palestinian poet Maḥmūd Darwīsh (1942-2008), this study aims to demonstrate how a conflict of voices in their poetry emerged and developed across four stages, …

Arabische Romantik im Exil

Das poetische Werk des Fauzi al-Ma‘luf

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Thanks to his cycle of poems On the carpet of the wind, the Lebanese writer Fawzī al-Ma ͑lūf (1899−1930) is considered one of the most outstanding representatives of Arabic romantic poetry in Latin American exile. This study undertakes a dual …

Konrad von Heimesfurt

Untersuchungen zu Quellen, Überlieferung und Wirkung seiner beiden Werke »Unser vrouwen hinvart« und »Urstende«

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The two verse narratives of Konrad von Heimesfurt (composed at the beginning of the 13th century and strongly influenced by the Middle High German courtly epic) are free adaptations of New Testament Apocrypha. The „Hinvart“, narrating the death and assumption …

Der »Renner« des Hugo von Trimberg

Überlieferung, Quellenabhängigkeit und Struktur einer spätmittelalterlichen Lehrdichtung

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Nur von wenigen Dichtungen des Deutschen Mittelalters sind so viele Handschriften erhalten wie vom ,Renner’ des Hugo von Trimberg. Diese lange Zeit von der Forschung vernachlässigete breite Überlieferung wird in der Studie umfassend aufgearbeitet. Dabei ergeben sich auch überraschende Einblicke …

Hugo von Montfort – Gedichte und Lieder

Faksimile des Codex Palatinus Germanicus 329 der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

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Hugo von Montfort (1357-1423) was one of the last minnesingers. Being only an amatuer poet his poems may lack „polish of form“ but are spontaneous instead. The Heidelberg manuscript consists of 40 poems, of which the last two are most …