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RECENT SCHOLARSHIP HAS BEGUN TO EXPLORE the meaning of global history, apparently an attractive catchword that allows modern scholars to investigate a past world where many of the evils of [...]

Sometimes the quietest voices in German literature actually appear to have exerted the greatest influence on their contemporaries and posterity. It should not matter for us today when those poets [...]

THE PRESENT STUDY WANTS TO INTRODUCE a significant German author/translator from the late fifteenth century whose work promises to shed more light on emerging global connections through literary channels in [...]

We have long recognized the enormous literary productivity of the genre of late medieval verse narratives. Wherever we look, we discover significant processes of reception, translation, adaptation, and modeling of [...]

Despite some previous attempts to identify irony in the Middle Ages, the true extent of its impact and significance especially in Middle High German literature has not yet been sufficiently fathomed. The present article examines irony in the Nibelungenlied, in the verse narrative Mauritius von Craun, and in the dialogue poem Ackermann by Johannes von Tepl. In each of them, ironic strategies surface at critical junctures and determine subsequent events, mostly in a surprising fashion, initiating a sudden rupture and high degree of irration. The use of irony serves especially to allow the poets to integrate a perspective toward the interior of their protagonists, revealing significant strategies hidden behind the formal exchanges and actions, and exposing motif structures. In a way, irony in those medieval texts indicates how much premodern literature actually shares with modern literature in the interest of exploring human emotions, conflicts, and profound concerns., I. IRONY AS A UNIVERSAL STRATEGY IN HUMAN COMMUNICATION Anyone approaching the topic of irony faces many difficulties pertaining to the definition of the term; to the specific analysis of [...]

Jutta Eming, Ann Marie Rasmussen, and Kathryn Starkey, eds., Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, xv + 355 [...]

Oster, Carolin. Die Farben hofischer Korper: Farbattrihuierung und hofische Identitat in mittelhochdeutschen Artus- und Tristanromanen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. 236 pp. 79.80 [euro] (hardcover). In ihrer Siegener Dissertation von 2012, [...]

ALBRECHT CLASSEN University of Arizona Most of the comments regarding this large issue do not fully take into account the historical dimension of translation and the need to have translations [...]

This question was posed in our last issue by Frank Trommler. We published a number of initial responses in GQ 80.1 and are pleased to offer five new contributions. These [...]

An examination of the scatological and epistemological aspects of 'Till Eulenspiegel' concludes that these semi-literary accounts are among the most representative literary works of the German late Middle Ages.

The topics of love, marriage, sexuality, and the family in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance have attracted tremendous interest for some time now because we have realized how [...]

Poet Heinrich der Teichner was a highly noteworthy voice from the Middle Ages attacking failings and vices among social classes of his time as he addressed a wide range of social-political and religious-ethical concerns. His work of 729 stanzas are a powerful statement about the declining value system in fourteenth-century Austria reflecting the profound social and economic changes at his time and the drastic transformation of the late Middle Ages.

In Moriz von Craun (ca. 1220), the wooden ship that Moriz (Mauricius) von Craun commissioned for his highly dramatic appearance at the castle of his beloved lady, the Countess of [...]

The 'Grisardis' and 'Witwenbuch' of the 15th century Carthusian monk Erhart Gross are discussed. Gross discusses the relationship of husband and wife based on his religious philosophy and sees his work as a religious lesson to the lay population.

The invention of the printing press exerted a remarkable influence on the way late-medieval culture transformed and simultaneously prepared the basis for its own demise.(2) The press was first developed [...]

The heroic song present in the oldest German poem 'Hildebrandslied' emphasizes that the battlefield results from the inability of the antagonists to communicate with each other is is poem is unique as there are no other characters except Hildebrand and his son Hadubrand, and the conflict is due to their miscommunication rather than from what they communicated. Although they attempt to resolve their differences, they are unable to act in accordance with their words.

Raposo Fernandez, Berta, and Isabel Gutierrez Koester, eds. Bis an den Rand Europas: Spanien in deutschen Reiseberichten vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Frankfurt a. M.: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2011. 410 pp. 29.80 [...]

The literary canon, firmly circumscribed and defined by numerous literary histories which establish the standards of our field, provides a most useful hermeneutic framework for everything we do in literary [...]

ALBRECHT CLASSEN University of Arizona The challenge posed by Katherine Arens is most welcome, and it is one that every scholar/scientist must face from time to time to revisit the [...]

Burdorf, Dieter. Einfuhrung in die Gedichtanalyse. 3., aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2015. X + 289pp. 19.95 [euro] (paperback). Eines der fur mich nutzlichsten Studienwerke ist schon [...]

Burdorf, Dieter. Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik. Einfuhrung und Interpretation. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2015. VIII + 170pp. 24.95 [euro] (papcrback). So sperrig Lyrik oftmals zu sein scheint, so wichtig ist [...]

ARTHURISCHE VERHANDLUNGEN: SPIELREGELN DER GEWALT IN PLEIERS ARTUSROMANEN GAREL VOM BLUHENDEN TAL UND TANDARADEIS UND FLORDIBEL. Von Heiko Fiedler-Rauer. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2003. Pp. 266. EUR 58.50. In seiner im [...]

Gephart, Irmgard. Der Zorn der Nibelungen: Rivalitat und Rache im 'Nibelungenlied.' Cologne: Bohlau, 2005. 267pp. 34.90 € paperback. Erneut eine wissenschaftliche Studie uber das Nibelungenlied (NL), hier die in den [...]