Die Bremen Masterclasses on Multimodality beginnen mit einem Vortrag eines Gastes von der Universität Agder in Norwegen:
Dr. Kate Maxwell, Universität Agder, Norwegen
The Medieval Manuscript: A Multimodal Performance?
22. April 2015, 14.15-15.45
in GW2, A3570
Der Vortrag beschäftigt sich mit dem mittelalterlichen Manuskript und seiner Analyse aus einer multimodalen Perspektive, d.h., mit der Frage, wie neben der Sprache auch Bilder und Annotationen, etc. analysiert werden können. Im Vordergrund steht außerdem die Frage nach der Autorschaft eines solchen Manuskripts, die als Performance verstanden wird.
Abstract zum Vortrag:
The term ‘social actors’ describes the agents in a multimodal ‘text’ and their interactions, whether involved in its creation, interpretation, or portrayed within it. In this paper, I rework this into the idea of manuscript ‘performers’ in order to understand the various roles involved in creating and receiving a medieval manuscript. the foremost performer, at least in a traditional sense, is the author. Yet the construct of ‘the author’, so ingrained in scholarship, has in fact been forced upon medieval texts. By focusing on the social practices of both manuscript compilers and manuscript readers, I explore how the practice of authorship is constructed and received through the semiotic resources and elements present on the manuscript page. The discourses of religion, feminism, anti-semitism, racism, nationalism, and the ‘other’ will all be touched upon. How can what is essentially ‘the same text’ by ‘the same author(s)’ be presented and received so differently in various versions, times, and places? The multimodal approach shows that we are not dealing with the same text, or indeed author – we are dealing with different constructs of text and author, re-packed, re-presented, and re-interpreted to fit the different practices, societies, and times.
We start out Bremen Masterclasses on Multimodality with a talk by one of our guests from the University of Agder, Norway:
Dr. Kate Maxwell, Universität Agder, Norwegen
The Medieval Manuscript: A Multimodal Performance?
22. April 2015, 14.15-15.45
in GW2, A3570
Abstract:
The term ‘social actors’ describes the agents in a multimodal ‘text’ and their interactions, whether involved in its creation, interpretation, or portrayed within it. In this paper, I rework this into the idea of manuscript ‘performers’ in order to understand the various roles involved in creating and receiving a medieval manuscript. the foremost performer, at least in a traditional sense, is the author. Yet the construct of ‘the author’, so ingrained in scholarship, has in fact been forced upon medieval texts. By focusing on the social practices of both manuscript compilers and manuscript readers, I explore how the practice of authorship is constructed and received through the semiotic resources and elements present on the manuscript page. The discourses of religion, feminism, anti-semitism, racism, nationalism, and the ‘other’ will all be touched upon. How can what is essentially ‘the same text’ by ‘the same author(s)’ be presented and received so differently in various versions, times, and places? The multimodal approach shows that we are not dealing with the same text, or indeed author – we are dealing with different constructs of text and author, re-packed, re-presented, and re-interpreted to fit the different practices, societies, and times.