Âventiure and contingency: Narration as a risk in Hartmann's 'Iwein' Âventiure und Kontingenz: Erzählen als Wagnis im ‘Iwein' Hartmanns von Aue

Struwe-Rohr, Carolin (2019): Âventiure and contingency: Narration as a risk in Hartmann's 'Iwein' Âventiure und Kontingenz: Erzählen als Wagnis im ‘Iwein' Hartmanns von Aue. In: Zeitschrift für Deutsches Altertum und Deutsche Literatur, Vol. 148, No. 1: pp. 9-27

Abstract

The article interprets the story of Kalogrenant in Hartmann's 'Iwein' as a new form of narration within the Arthurian epics. It will be shown that this kind of story is not only about coincidental events. Because of its form of narration and its reception at the court of Artus it is rather a way of exposing 'radical contingency'. Thus narration turns into chance with an unpredictable ending.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 1
• Subjects: 400 Language > 400 Language
• ISSN: 0044-2518
• Language: German