Part I. Preliminary Problems: 1. Orality and writing; 2. The historical background; Part II. Three Modes of Reception: 3. Criteria for reception by hearing; 4. Survey of reception by hearing; 5. Criteria for reception by reading; 6. Survey of reception by reading; 7. Criteria for the intermediate mode of reception; 8. Survey of the intermediate mode of reception; Part III. Conclusions: 9. Literacy, history and fiction; 10. Recital and reading in their historical context; Notes; Bibliographic index.
This book examines the first five hundred years of German literature (800–1300) and how it was received by contemporaries.
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