The Arthur of the Germans - The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature

Zusammenfassung This volume provides a survey of Arthurian works and themes in medieval German and Dutch literature and also examines pictorial representations of Arthurian topics! the impact of Arthurian motifs on real life! and the revival and adaptation of legends. * Harry Jackson and Silvia Ranawake, Introduction; * Ingrid Kasten, The Western Background; * Silvia Ranawake, The Emergence of German Arthurian Romance; * Timothy McFarland, The Emergence of German Grail Romance; * Marion Gibbs, Fragment and Expansion; * Rosemary Wallbank, Three Post-Classical Authors; * Matthias Meyer, Intertextuality in the Later Thirteenth Century; * Mark Chinca, Tristan Narratives from the High to the Late Middle Ages; * Volker Mertens, Appendix: Arthur in the Tristan Tradition; * Volker Honemann, The Wigalois Narratives; * Elizabeth A. Andersen, The Reception of Prose; * Bernd Bastert, Late Medieval Summations; * W. H. Jackson, Lorengel and the Spruch von den Tafelrundern; * Bart Besamusca, The Medieval Dutch Arthurian Material; * John L. Flood, Arthurian Romance and German Heroic Poetry; * John E. Tailby, Arthurian Elements in Drama and Meisterlieder; * Alfred Thomas, King Arthur and his Round Table in the Culture of Medieval Bohemia and in Medieval Czech Literature; * James Rushing, The Medieval German Pictorial Evidence; * W. H. Jackson, Arthurian Material and German Society in the Middle Ages; * John L. Flood, Early Printed Editions of Arthurian Romances; * Ulrich Muller and Werner Wunderlich, The Modern Reception of the Arthurian Legend.

Product details

• Authors: Harry Jackson, Silvia Ranawake, Silvia (EDT)/ Jackson Ranawake
• Assisted by: Harry Jackson (Editor), W. H. Jackson (Editor), Silvia Ranawake (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2012
• EAN: 9780708324486
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2448-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: University of Wales Press - Ar; Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Legend, Literature, Germany, Arthur, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, german, medieval, of, Dutch, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Arthurian, Germans