Stolz, Michael (November 2014). The Transmission of Manuscripts and the Genetics of Texts. A new critical edition of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival (Unpublished). In: American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting 2014. San Diego, California. 22.-25,11.2014.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)The discussion on the New Philology triggered by French and North American scholars in the last decade of the 20th century emphasized the material character of textual transmission inside and outside the written evidences of medieval manuscripts by downgrading the active role of the historical author. However, the reception of the ideas propagated by the New Philology adherents was rather divided. Some researchers questioned its innovative status (K. Stackmann: “Neue Philologie?”), others saw a new era of the “powers of philology” evoked (H.-U. Gumbrecht). Besides the debates on the New Philology another concept of textual materiality strengthened in the last decade, maintaining that textual alterations somewhat relate to biogenetic mutations. In a matter of fact, phenomena such as genetic and textual variation, gene recombination and ‘contamination’ (the mixing of different exemplars in one manuscript text) share common features. The paper discusses to what extent the biogenetic concepts can be used for evaluating manifestations of textual production (as the approach of ‘critique génétique’ does) and of textual transmission (as the phylogenetic analysis of manuscript variation does). In this context yet the genealogical concept of stemmatology – the treelike representation of textual development abhorred by the New Philology adepts – might prove to be useful for describing the history of texts. The textual material to be analyzed will be drawn from the Parzival Project, which is currently preparing a new electronic edition of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival novel written shortly after 1200 and transmitted in numerous manuscripts up to the age of printing (www.parzival.unibe.ch). Researches of the project have actually resulted in suggesting that the advanced knowledge of the manuscript transmission yields a more precise idea on the author’s own writing process.
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages > Old German Language and Literature |
UniBE Contributor: |
Stolz, Michael |
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400 Language > 430 German & related languages 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 830 German & related literatures |
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[4] Swiss National Science Foundation ; [UNSPECIFIED] Phil.-hist. Fakultät, Uni Bern |
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[160] Die Fassung *m im Kontext der Fassungen von Wolframs ›Parzival‹. Eine Ausgabe in synoptischer Form (D-A-CH) Official URL |
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English |
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Michael Rudolf Stolz |
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12 Jan 2015 16:50 |
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05 Dec 2022 14:38 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/61451 |
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