Alexander Schwarz

Modern literature has been treated using a variety of different methods and no one would question the necessity of methodic approach. With regard to medieval literature, the subject of Lesarten, this seems to be less obvious. The main thesis of Lesarten is, however, that methodological explicity plays an even bigger role in the study of medieval texts because here we are investigating a distant culture whose native readers we cannot interview. Lesarten is a collection of papers by American, Canadian and Swiss scholars on semiotic, pragmatic, post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist and new historicist ways to read texts including Parzival, Sir Launfal, Le Roman de la Rose, as well as poems by Guillaume d'Aquitaine or Oswald von Wolkenstein.

Lesarten

Susanne Braun

Die junge Tierärztin Susanne Braun ist den deutschen Praxisalltag leid und entscheidet sich, ihren Traum zu leben: Sie kündigt, löst ihre Wohnung auf, macht mit dem Freund Schluss und geht auf die Fähre. Ziel: Ihre Herzensinsel Island, die sie schon als Schülerin besuchen durfte. Doch dort erwartet sie kein Urlaub, sondern ein mühsamer Neuanfang – im Beruf genauso wie in der Liebe. Die sagenumwobene Insel gibt ihr Kraft – mittlerweile ist sie zu einer Spezialistin für Islandpferde geworden und wird von den Isländer*innen liebevoll »Knochenknackerin« genannt. Susanne genießt die Freiheit, die das Inselleben ihr bietet, die rauen Naturkräfte mit ihren bemoosten Lavafeldern, tosenden Wasserfällen, eiskalten Gletschern, heißen Geysiren und Vulkanen, den langen, lauen Sommernächten und den klirrend kalten, dunklen Wintern. Und gegen Männer in Strickpullovern ist ja auch nix zu sagen – Klischee hin oder her. Hier hat Susanne ihre Bestimmung gefunden, hier ist ihr Herz zu Hause.

Mein Leben auf Island

Die Insel der wilden Träume

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sabine Burger

Nelleke Geel

przewodnik po Barcelonie

Cień wiatru

The period from 1200 to 1600 was the golden age of fools. From representations of irreverent acts to full-blown insanity, fools appeared on the misericords of gothic churches and in the plots of Arthurian narratives, before achieving a wider prominence in literature and iconography in the decades around 1500. But how are we to read these figures appropriately? Is it possible to reconstruct the fascination that fools exerted on the medieval and early modern mind? While modern theories give us the analytical tools to explore this subject, we are faced with the paradox that by striving to understand fools and foolishness we no longer accept their ways but impose rational categories on them. Together these essays propose one way out of this dilemma. Instead of attempting to define the fool or trying to find the common denominator behind his many masks, this volume focuses on the qualities, acts, and gestures that signify foolishness. By investigating different manifestations of foolery rather than the figure of the fool himself, we can begin to understand the proliferation of fools and foolish behaviour in the texts and illustrations of manuscripts and early books.

Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books

Behaving Like Fools

Alexander Schwarz

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