The Rime Technique In The Poems Of Reinmar Von Zweter

Author : Louis E. Wolferz
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ISBN 13 : 9781332322244
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book The Rime Technique in the Poems of Reinmar Von Zweter written by Louis E. Wolferz and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rime Technique in the Poems of Reinmar Von Zweter: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate, School of Cornell University, for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Konrad Zwierzina has made exhaustive investigations of the material of the Middle High German epic writers, the very valuable and fruitful results of which are to be found in Haupt's Zeitschrift fur deutsches Altertum vols. 44 and 45, entitled "Mittelhochdeutsche Studien," and also in Abhandlungen zur germanischen Philologie Festschrift fur Richard Heinzel, Halle 1898, entitled Beobachtungen zum Reimgebrauch Hartmanns und Wolframs. These are studies of the rimes based upon a great mass of material in the form of rime dictionaries of nearly all the Middle High German epics. It is well known that the scribes and copyists of the ancient manuscripts had no misgivings about making changes in the text to suit their own volcabulary or dialectic usage, and these changes could easily be made without affecting the text provided the word was in the verse, but in rime such changes were much more difficult, if not impossible, because then both members of the rime pair required changing and frequently one or both of the verses needed recasting. For this reason the rimes have come down to us quite intact and furnish a more reliable criterion of the authors original diction than any of the rest of the text. A rime investigation leads us into the workshop of the author, as it were, and we observe him at his work. We note his peculiarities, his special preferences, the influence of his dialect, the development of his rime technique. That Zwierzina's studies are based upon the rimes lends so much more weight to his conclusions. His method is to compare the rimes of two writers e.g. in the "Beobachtungen," or of two groups of writers as the Austrian-Bavarian and the Middle German in the "Studien," or of individuals in their different works, tracing throughout the use of a given word or grammatical form, e.g. the adverb sdn which Wolfram uses 86 times in the first half of Parzival, an average of 1:150, is used only five times in the second half, an average of 1:2370. Zwierzina's conclusion is that Wolfram deliberately avoided it from book VIII on, because it came to his notice that his readers considered it dialectic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."