Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois : intertextuality and interpretation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Neil, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2005.
Series:Arthurian studies ; v. 62.
Subjects:
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.