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Featured image: A commenting narrator: detail from Wolfram <von Eschenbach>: Willehalm (Fragment) \u2013 BSB Cgm 193,III, [S.l.] Sachsen (Umkreis Quedlinburg\/Halberstadt), 1270.  Source: http:\/\/daten.digitale-sammlungen.de\/bsb00012911\/image_3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommentarial Forms in Literature\u201d was a sister grant to \u201cPractices of Commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generously funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) through the PPP Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange with Canada, \u201cCommentarial Forms in Literature\u201d was directed by Christina Lechtermann<\/a> formerly of the Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main as well as  Jeannie Miller<\/a> and Markus Stock<\/a> of the University of Toronto. It paired researchers in Frankfurt and Toronto to work on joint research projects related to commentarial forms in literature, and culminated in an online conference in 2021.Generously funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) through the PPP Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange with Canada, \u201cCommentarial Forms in Literature\u201d was directed by Christina Lechtermann<\/a> formerly of the Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main as well as  Jeannie Miller<\/a> and Markus Stock<\/a> of the University of Toronto. It paired researchers in Frankfurt and Toronto to work on joint research projects related to commentarial forms in literature, and culminated in an online conference in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This project dealt with literary texts that explore the power and interpretive potential of commentarial gestures. It examined the importance of the commentarial form historically in premodern literature, and theoretically as a constitutive component of the literary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project brought together scholars in Arabic, German, Jewish, and Romance medieval and early modern literatures at the University of Toronto and Goethe University Frankfurt\/Main. The group investigated commentarial forms in literature<\/em> as well as commentarial forms to stage literature<\/em> as an ennobled mode of written communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The working hypothesis of the research project was as follows: when commentary is a major authoritative mode, its forms and gestures become available for artistic play on authority, and they surface in many different contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n