Germanistenverzeichnis: David Arthur WELLS

David Arthur WELLS

Geb. 1941, Professor, London, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - Medieval literature and language (Lehrgebiet)
Anschrift: University of London, Birkbeck College - Department of German, Birkbeck College, University of London - 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Medieval literature, thought and iconography

Monographien:

The Vorau Moses and Balaam (1970)
Concordances to the Early Middle High German Biblical Epic: the 'Vorauer Bücher Moses' (1975)
The Wild Man from the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' to Hartmann von Aue's 'Iwein'(1975)
The Central Franconian Rhyming Bible ("Mittelfränkische Reimbibel"): An Early Twelfth-Century German Verse Homiliary. A Thematic and Exegetical Commentary. With the Text and a Translation into English (2004).

Aufsätze und Beiträge:

Der Vorauer Moses und die Auslegung des Himmlischen Jerusalem (ZDA 1969)
Source and Tradition in the Moriaen, in European Context (ed. P.K. King et al. 1971)
The Middle Dutch Moriaen, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, and Medieval Tradition (Studia Neerlandica 1971)
Die Erläuterung frühmittelhochdeutscher geistlicher Texte: Probleme und Methoden, in Studien zur frühmittelhochdeutschen Literatur (ed. L.P. Johnson et al. 1974)
Imperial Sanctity and Political Reality: Bible, Liturgy and the Ambivalence of Symbol in Walther von der Vogelweide's Songs under Otto IV (Speculum 1978)
Letters of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Berlioz in Belfast (Music and Letters 1979)
Die Ikonographie von Daniel IV und der Wahnsinn des Löwenritters (Fest. John Asher 1981)
The Medieval Nebuchadnezzar. The Exegetical Tradition of Daniel IV and its Significance for the Ywain Romances and for German Vernacular Literature (FmSt 1982)
Problems of Access to Literature in German in Relation to Research and Bibliography, in German Studies: British Resources (ed. D. Paisey 1986)
Gesture in Hartmann's Gregorius, in Hartmann von Aue: Changing Perspectives (ed. T.D. McFarland et al. 1988)
Die biblischen Wörter im mittellateinischen Unibos-Gedicht, in Kleinere Erzählformen im Mittelalter (ed. K. Grubmüller et al. 1988)
Carolingian Tradition in the Central Franconian Rhyming Bible, in 'Mit regulu bithuungan' (ed. J.L. Flood et al. 1989)
Susanna and Nebuchadnezzar. The Susanna Fragment of the Central Franconian Rhyming Bible (MLR 1989)
Die Apostelverzeichnisse und die Fata Apostolorum in frühmittelhochdeutscher Literatur und Predigt (ZDA 1991)
Die Allegorie als Interpretationsmittel mittelalterlicher Texte, in Bildhafte Rede in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit (ed. W. Harms et al. 1992)
Attitudes to the Jews in Early Middle High German Religious Literature and Sermon (LGS IV 1992)
Approaches to the Commentary Form in Medieval Studies (Editio 1993)
The Journeys of the Apostles in the German Premendicant Sermons: On the Feast of the Separation of the Apostles, in German Narrative Literature of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (ed. V. Honemann et al. 1994)
Fatherly Advice. The Precepts of Gregorius, Marke, and Gurnemanz and the School Tradition of the Disticha Catonis (FmSt 1994)
The Procession of Apostles in the German Last Judgement Plays (ABäG 1996)
Religious Disputation Literature and the Theology of Willehalm. An Aspect of Wolfram's Education, in Wolfram's Willehalm. Fifteen Essays, ed. M.H. Jones and T. McFarland (2000)
The Medieval Religious Disputation and the Theology of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm (Studi Medievali 2000)
Christliche Apologetik, die mittelhochdeutsche Silvesterlegende, Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm, und die Toleranz gegenüber Andersgläubigen im Mittelalter (Mediaevistik 2001)
annual bibliographical research reports on medieval German literature (The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 1968-2000).

Herausgebertätigkeit:

The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 1975-2004
Annual Bulletin of the Modern Humanities Research Association 1969-2001
various publications for MHRA including The Eadwine Psalter (1992).

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften :

Honorary Secretary, Modern Humanities Research Association 1969-2001
Honorary Treasurer, MHRA 2001-
Secretary-General, International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM) 1981-2005

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, PhD (Cantab)

Letzte Aktualisierung: Fri Sep 3 15:01:20 2004