Multimodality in German and Dutch Narratives (ca. 1450-1800)
General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature)
Final Report Abstract
By using verbal and visual code systems every early modern printed narrative is multimodal. The aim of the project was the exemplary analysis of multimodal phenomena in two language areas, to be realized a repertory in a first phase, providing for the first time a quantitative and qualitative basis for the systematic synchronic and diachronic analysis and comparison of the multimodality of German and Dutch printed editions of three narratives until 1800 (Griseldis, Reynaert / Reynke / Reineke, and Fortunatus). 319 printed editions in 1069 copies have been inventoried and bibliographically described, naming (when possible) the title, place, year, printer(publisher), format, number of leaves, title page, number and repetition of woodcut illustrations, and copies. In a second phase, for each narrative woodcut series of key prints which had been influential for woodcut series in later editions, were inventoried in detail. Based on these results, the PI coedited a volume on the top ten printed fictional narratives until 1800, including Griseldis, Reynaert and Fortunatus, with an introduction and three articles written by the PI. In four other articles she discussed different multimodal aspects in early printed fictional narratives against a European background. All in all, with the description of about 41% more editions and copies than estimated in the application and the contributions published, the project surpassed the aims of the application. The PI is aiming to write a comprehensive monograph comparing Dutch and German multimodality in early printed fictional narratives in a third year which is going to be applied for.
Publications
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Dat si over minen soen gheen macht en hebbe. Gattung und multimodale Semiotik der Historia septem sapientum Romae am Beispiel der niederländischen Tradition. Das Mittelalter 28 (2023): 118–136
Rita Schlusemann
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Exempel van het menselijk leven. Van Reynaert die vos een seer genoechlijcke ende vermakelijcke Historie met haer moralisatien ende korte wtlegginghen voor die capittelen gestelt van nieus oversien ende verbetert. Met schoone figueren gheciert (Delft: Bruyn Harmansz. Schinckel, 1589), 8°. Thysia 1042:2.“ Tot publijcque dienst der studie. Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana. Hgg. Wim van Anrooij und Paul Hoftijzer. Hilversum 2023. 96–97
Rita Schlusemann
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Griseldis – a Flexible European Heroine with a Strong Character. Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe, 127-160. De Gruyter.
Schlusemann, Rita
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Introduction. Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe, 1-18. De Gruyter.
Schlusemann, Rita; Blom, Helwi; Richter, Anna Katharina & Wierzbicka-Trwoga, Krystyna
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The Dissemination and Multimodality of Historia septem sapientum Romae. Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe, 87-126. De Gruyter.
Schlusemann, Rita
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Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe. De Gruyter.
Schlusemann, Rita; Blom, Helwi; Richter, Anna Katharina & Wierzbicka-Trwoga, Krystyna
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Transcultural Reynaert. Dissemination and Peritextual Adaptations between 1479 and 1800. Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe, 161-190. De Gruyter.
Schlusemann, Rita
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Multimodalität in gedruckten Historien bis 1500. Ansätze einer modernen niederdeutschen Literaturforschung. Mittelniederdeutsch zwischen Korpuslinguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, 177-201. Göttingen University Press.
Schlusemann, Rita
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ORDNEL: Online-Repertorium gedruckter deutscher und niederländischer Erzählliteratur bis 1800 (Griseldis; Reynaert / Reynke / Reineke; Fortunatus)
Rita Schlusemann
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‘De pestiferis libris, cuiusmodi sunt in Hispania Amadisus, Splandianus … ’. Production, Materiality, and Readers of the Dutch ‘Amadijs’. Dutch Crossing, 48(2), 87-105.
Schlusemann, Rita
