A Companion to Wolfram's Parzival

Up-to-date criticism and commentary on the greatest of the German courtly epics.

List of contents

Introduction - Will Hasty
Gahmuret and Herzeloyde: Gone but not Forgotten - Francis G. Gentry
Ideals of Flesh and Blood: Women Characters in - Marion E. Gibbs
The Significance of the Gawan Story in Parzival - Martin Jones
Doing His Own Thing: Wolfram's Grail - Sidney M. Johnson
Fiction, Plot, and Discourse: Wolfram's Parzival and Its Narrative Sources - Adrian Stevens
Wolfram von Eschenbach: Modes of Narrative Expression - Neil Thomas
Parzival and the Theology of Fallen Man -
Tournaments and Battles in Parzival - W.H. Jackson
Reading, Writing, and Learning in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival - Albrecht Classen
Otherworlds, Alchemy, Pythagoras, and Jung: Symbols of Transformation in Parzival - Winder McConnell
At the Limits of Chivalry in Wolfram's Parzival: An Arthurian Perspective - Will Hasty
Wolfram, Wagner, and the Germans - Ulrich Mueller

Product details

• Authors: Will Hasty
• Assisted by: Will Hasty (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781571134585
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-458-5
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies