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The article argues that within the genre of the Arthurian romance the tales about King Arthur’s vow to fast, show a possibility to conceptualize the status of ‘text’, a possibility which has historically become unfamiliar. Under these circumstances the act of telling and the content of what is told differ, if at all, slightly and this seems to be an explanation for the fact that the medieval language provided only one word for the tale and its plot: âventiure.
The discourses on textuality and literacy that can be observed in the Kyot-Excursus in 'Parcival' by Wolfram von Eschenbach and in the Magnetbergerzählung of the 'Reinfried von Braunschweig' will serve here as examples in an attempt to historicize textual models. My essay will focus on how the limits of textuality could be defines within those 13th-century aristocratic orders of knowledge to which court literature can provide an access. What emerges within this context are concepts and ideas that lie beyond the scope of modern scholarly systems; these narratives indicate a way of dealing with textuality and literacy that, rather than referring to the textual discourse, may remain instead on the phenomenal surface of the material or (as if the textual discourse did not exist) may embody implicitly the circumstances that it signifies.
Was die altgermanistische Fachidentität wo nicht zu gefährden droht, da doch neu zu bestimmen nahe legt, das lässt sich am einfachsten unter jenem gängigen Stichwort 'Kulturwissenschaft' fassen, welches überhaupt in den Programm- und Legitimierungdebatten solcher akademischen Fächer eine zentrale Rolle spielt, die man einmal ohne weiteres die Geisteswissenschaften nannte. Dabei scheint durchaus umstritten zu sein, ob mit 'Kulturwissenschaften' ein Bruch mit den Traditionen der Deutschen Philologie angesagt ist oder im Gegenteil deren neuerliche Stabilisierung.