Poetik der Visualität. Wolframs ›Parzival‹-Roman im Spiegel der arabischen Optik

Stolz, Michael (2023). Poetik der Visualität. Wolframs ›Parzival‹-Roman im Spiegel der arabischen Optik. Poetica, 54(4), pp. 226-281. Brill

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In recent decades the poetics of the visual has attracted increased scholarly interest in cultural and historical studies; but so far the topic has rarely been considered in intercultural perspectives. A revealing example of this is Wolfram von Eschenbach’s medieval poem Parzival, composed shortly after 1200, that suggests that his author was – at least to some extent – familiar with the Arab learning of his time, as transmitted through the Iberian translation centre of Toledo. The metaphorical language of the poem evokes contrasts of light and darkness, the phenomenon of haziness and the play of colours. So far, there has been no attempt to relate these motifs to contemporary Arab optics. Influential thinkers such as Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) studied the structure of the eye, the radiation of light, as well as the effects of reflection and refraction. Whereas these ideas would spread in occidental science only over the course of the 13th century (via Roger Bacon and others), Wolfram's Parzival ‘reflects’ elementary components of Arab optics already in an earlier period.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages > Old German Language and Literature
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages

UniBE Contributor:

Stolz, Michael

Subjects:

400 Language > 430 German & related languages
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 830 German & related literatures

ISSN:

2589-0530

Publisher:

Brill

Language:

German

Submitter:

Michael Rudolf Stolz

Date Deposited:

08 Jan 2024 11:40

Last Modified:

12 Feb 2024 10:53

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/191325

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/191325

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