What is it about?
This study includes exhaustive catalogue and detailed analysis of the rhetorical device in his later works, including references to earlier attestations of the pairs and identification of pairs Hartmann probably coined..Alliterating word-pairs enhance the message of any text, be they popular or poetic. Compares Harmann's work with Gottfried of Straßburg and other Middle High German texts, keeping genre considerations in mind.
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Why is it important?
Adds to the body of known alliterating word-pairs and describes Hartmann's use in detail.
Perspectives
Continues a long-year project documenting the alliterating word-pair in the earliest stages of German, now from circa 800 to the 1210s.
Dr. John M. Jeep
Miami University
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This page is a summary of: Stabreimende Wortpaare in den späteren Werken Hartmanns von Aue: Iwein, Gregorius, Der arme Heinrich, Yearbook of Phraseology, November 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/phras-2018-0005.
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