Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois : intertextuality and interpretation /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer,
2005.
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| Series: | Arthurian studies ;
v. 62. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contesting the canon
- The 'post-classical' challenge
- Wigalois: tradition and innovation
- Knights of fortune
- Fortuna's emissary
- The knight of fortune's wheel
- Saint and sinner
- The hero's descensus
- The father's rehabilitation
- Realism and realpolitik
- The last battle
- The matter of closure: Parzival and Wigalois
- Romance and exemplum
- The knight of King Arthur
- The place of Wigalois in German literary history.