Beginnings of Medieval Romance - Fact and Fiction, 1150-1220

Informationen zum Autor D. H. Green is Shröder Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books on Medieval German literature. Zusammenfassung Until the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious! historical and factual themes! but the second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre consciously conceived as fictional! the romance. Dennis Green explores how and why this shift occurred. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Defining twelfth-century fictionality; 2. Vernacular fiction in the twelfth century; 3. Fictive orality; 4. Fiction and Wolfram's Parzival; 5. Fiction and structure; 6. Fiction and history; Notes; Bibliography; Index of names.

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• Authors: D. H. Green, D. H. (University of Cambridge) Green, Dennis Howard Green
• Assisted by: Alastair Minnis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521813990
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81399-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies