Refraction
Refractive referred to in the Verslehre exceeding a metric limit (for example Versgrenze or verse limit ) by the linguistic structure of meaning, ie when the syntactic unit of the metric unit does not match. One differentiates specifically:
- Enjambement (crossing the line of verse), further here
- Antilabe (change of speaker in the drama within the verse)
- Stanza jump (exceeding the stanza boundary)
The term is mainly used in the area of Middle High German poetry, where from the 12th century the refraction of rhymes (or rather the refraction of rhymes , not to be confused with the broken rhyme) is used to make the sequences of rhymes more flexible. In the couplet of refraction of the first verse of a rhyme pair belongs to the same syntactic unit as the previous line and the second line to the syntactic unit of the following verse. These rhyming pair refractions are particularly common in Gottfried von Straßburg and Konrad von Würzburg . The term can already be found in Wolfram von Eschenbach ("rîme ... samnen unde brechen" Parzival , 337, 25 f.).
A corresponding break in the long line is called a hook style in Old High German verse theory.
literature
- Helmut de Boor: On the doctrine of the metric refraction in Middle High German poetry. In: Walther Steller (Ed.): Festschrift Theodor Siebs for his 70th birthday. Marcus, Breslau 1933, pp. 49-68.
- Dieter Burdorf , Christoph Fasbender , Burkhard Moennighoff (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon literature. Terms and definitions. 3. Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 97.
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 32.
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 100.