Publisher's Synopsis
A poetics of literary dialogue is not something only invented in the modern age. Back in the Middle High German 'Classical' era, a culture was already beginning to develop of verbal strategies for resolving conflict and performing other conversational functions, with literary texts representing their ideal forms. The papers in this volume combine methods from linguistics and literary studies to approach a new description of the dialogues in large-scale MHG epics. They present supratextual accounts of different types of dialogue and forms typical of certain genres and media as well as case studies of important individual epics.
