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The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret) and allowed it to enter quite frequently into their texts.
List of contents
Introduction: The Secret in the Literary Discourse: The Challenges of Medieval Literature for Post-Modern Readers
Chapter One: Marie de France: The
Lais-the Mysterious Black Ship, and Other Secrets in the World of Love
Chapter Two: Nordic Sagas and the
Mabinogi: Secrets in Medieval Icelandic and Welsh Literature or: The Appearance of the Otherworld in the Human Context
Chapter Three: Wolfram von Eschenbach,
Parzival-the Secret of the Grail at Munsalvæsche, and the Secret Inscription on the Dog Leash in
TiturelChapter Four: Heldris de Cornuälle's
Roman de Silence: The Secret of Gender Identity and the Secret of the Self: Nature versus Nurture-A Debate Raging Already in the Thirteenth Century
Chapter Five: Secrets and Mysteries in the World of Heinrich von dem Türlin's
Crône: The Transformation of the Arthurian and the Grail Romance
Chapter Six: Secrets and the Secret World in
Huon de Bordeaux Foreign and Yet Not Alien: The Good King Auberon
Chapter Seven: Secrets of the Mystical World: Mysticism and the Absolute Other in Divine Terms
Epilogue: Have We Now Found the Secret? Or are there no secrets?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Albrecht Classen is university distinguished professor of German studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
