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Was fühlen Erzähler?

  • Lena Zudrell
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Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman
This chapter is in the book Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman

Abstract

It is not only protagonists who can express emotions, the narrators of Middle High German Arthurian romances can too. This article focuses on narrators’ emotional response to their characters and/or the courses of action they take in their respective texts Parzival, Erec, Iwein, Tandareis and Garel. The narrators express compassion with parting couples, anger about their inattentiveness and concern about their health and wellbeing, but they also contrast their own fearfulness with the bravery of their heroes. In expressing their emotions, narrators configure a specific temporality of the future in the past; they emphasize that their control over the narrative is limited and position themselves outside the story, yet inside the narrated world.

Abstract

It is not only protagonists who can express emotions, the narrators of Middle High German Arthurian romances can too. This article focuses on narrators’ emotional response to their characters and/or the courses of action they take in their respective texts Parzival, Erec, Iwein, Tandareis and Garel. The narrators express compassion with parting couples, anger about their inattentiveness and concern about their health and wellbeing, but they also contrast their own fearfulness with the bravery of their heroes. In expressing their emotions, narrators configure a specific temporality of the future in the past; they emphasize that their control over the narrative is limited and position themselves outside the story, yet inside the narrated world.

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