Arthurian Literature XVII - Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein

List of contents

Introduction: The Study of the 'Roman van Walewein' (with Erik Kooper) -
Introduction: The Study of the 'Roman van Walewein' (with Bart Besamusca) - Erik Kooper
The 'Roman van Walewein' as a Postclassical Literary Experiment - Walter Haug
The Pledge Motif in the 'Roman van Walewein': Original Variant and Rewritten Quest - Douglas Kelly
Convention and Innovation in the Middle Dutch 'Roman van Walewein' - Norris J. Lacy
It's Hard to Be Me, or Walewein/Gawan as Hero - Matthias M A Meyer
Walewein in the Otherworld and the Land of Prester John - Ad Putter
Giving and Receiving: Exchange in the 'Roman van Walewein' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - Linda Brosnan
Reading a Motion Picture: Why Steven Spielberg Should Read the 'Roman van Walewein' - Thea Summerfield
The 'Roman van Walewein': Man into Fox, Fox into Man -
The 'Roman van Walewein' Laced with Castles - Bart Veldhoen
Fight Descriptions in the 'Roman van Walewein' and in Two Middle High German Romances. A Comparison - Norbert Voorwinden
Making Bread from Stone: The 'Roman van Walewein' and the Transformation of Old French Romance - Lori J. Walters

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Keith Busby, Bart Besamusca, Erik Kooper

Product details

• Authors: Keith Busby
• Assisted by: Bart Besamusca (Editor), Professor Bart Besamusca (Editor), Keith Busby (Editor), Keith (Contributor) Busby (Editor), Erik Kooper (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.1999
• EAN: 9780859915465
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-546-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 242 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Arthurian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism