In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2021

In Search of the Culprit

Aspects of Medieval Authorship

Edited by: Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper
Funded by: Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 Andere Ästhetik

Volume 1 in the series Andere Ästhetik – Studien

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725339

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Despite various poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. The Romantic idea that an author created a text or even a work autonomously is transferred even to pre-modern literature today. This ignores the fact that the transmission of medieval and early modern literature creates variances that could not be justified by means of singular authorships. The present volume offers new theoretical approaches from English, German, and Scandinavian studies to provide a historically more adequate approach to the question of authorship in premodern literary cultures. Authorship is no longer equated with an extra-textual entity, but is instead considered a narratological, inner- and intertextual function that can be recognized in the retrospectively established beginnings of literature as well as in the medial transformation of texts during the early days of printing. The volume is aimed at interested scholars of all philologies, especially those dealing with the Middle Ages or Early Modern Period.

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Lukas Rösli, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Stefanie Gropper, Tübingen University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	5
List of Contents Open Access Download PDF	7
In Search of the Culprit. Aspects of Medieval Authorship Introduction Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper Open Access Download PDF	9
“… who is the author of this book?” Creating Literary Authorship in Medieval Iceland Jürg Glauser Open Access Download PDF	17
The Primal Scribe The Old Norse scriptogenesis and Ari Þorgilsson inn fróði as Iceland’s First Author Lukas Rösli Open Access Download PDF	53
The ‘Heteronomous Authorship’ of Icelandic Saga Literature The Example of Sneglu-Halla þáttr Stefanie Gropper Open Access Download PDF	75
Stylometry and the Faded Fingerprints of Saga Authors Sigurður Ingibergur Björnsson, Steingrímur Páll Kárason and Jón Karl Helgason Open Access Download PDF	97
Anonymity and the Textual Construction of Authority in Prosimetrum Judy Quinn Open Access Download PDF	123
The Persistence of the Humanistic Legacy Concepts of Authorship and Textuality in Konungasögur Studies Lena Rohrbach Open Access Download PDF	141
Spectres of Agency The Case of Fóstbroeðra saga and its Distributed Author Slavica Ranković Open Access Download PDF	175
A Theory of Early Modern Authorship Dealing with Accountability in 16^th-Century German Prose Novels Gudrun Bamberger Open Access Download PDF	193
Shakespeare’s Medieval Co-Authors Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker Open Access Download PDF	217
Conceptions of Authorship The Case of Ármanns rímur and Their Reworkings in Early Modern Iceland Madita Knöpfle Open Access Download PDF	239
The Best-Written Saga and the Absence of its Author Margrét Eggertsdóttir Open Access Download PDF	265
Figures and Charts Open Access Download PDF	289
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	291
Index of Works Open Access Download PDF	294
Index of Manuscripts Open Access Download PDF	297
Index of Matters Open Access Download PDF	299

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers working in the fields of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Literary Studies, Book History
Pages
- Main content: 298
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 20
- Coloured Line drawings: 9
Keywords: Premodern Authorship; Authorship as a Theoretical Concept; Premodern Literature

eBook

Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110725339

Hardcover

Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110692679