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Śagi, Avi; Stein, Batya

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“…Under current conditions, with humanity having entered the Anthropocene in which we threaten to destroy our own existence, the Earth itself, in a ghastly suicidal drive out of ignorance, greed, and stupidity, poets, artists, philosophers, and others have already embraced a global epistemology determined by the notion of absurdity because nothing seems to make sense any longer (Gavins 2022). When neither the Church nor the government, when neither any ideology nor any scientific teaching appears to be useful and meaningful, or universally accepted, the individual might even give up and accept that absurdity rules, especially in the face of a possibly imminent takeover by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Sagi 2002;Schloßberger-Oberhammer 2018).…”

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Absurdity in Medieval Literature? Der Stricker’s Pfaffe Amîs as a Transgressive Literary Enterprise Long before Modernity

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Although the concept of the Absurd seems to be characteristic only of modernity, especially since WWII, we face the intriguing opportunity to investigate its likely first emergence in the early thirteenth century in Der Stricker’s Pfaffe Amîs (ca. 1220). While the narrative framework insinuates that meaning and relevance continue to be the key components of the priest’s life, especially because he constantly seeks new sources of income for his own generosity and hospitality, his various victims increasingly face absurd situations and are abandoned even to the threat of insanity and death. The analysis of the verse narrative suggests that the protagonist begins to embrace crime and violence as the norm for his operations as a fake merchant. Thus, in some of the episodes of this famous Schwankbuch, elements of the absurd become visible, creating considerable irritation and frustration, if not horror and desperation, among the priest’s innocent victims.

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Absurdity in Medieval Literature? Der Stricker’s Pfaffe Amîs as a Transgressive Literary Enterprise Long before Modernity

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