The Shape of the Round Table : : Structures of Middle High German Arthurian Romance / / James A. Schultz.
This book begins by dissociating itself from two biases that have constrained much of the scholarship on the structure of Middle High German Arthurian romance: the traditional prejudice in favour of the great romances (Erec, Iwein, and Parzival) and the notion that structural analysis is merely the...
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Schultz, James A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Shape of the Round Table : Structures of Middle High German Arthurian Romance / James A. Schultz. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1983 1 online resource (264 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Word of Thanks -- A Word on Citations, Notes, and Unfamiliar Literature -- INTRODUCTION. Prescriptive Interpretation and Descriptive Poetics -- CHAPTER ONE. Six Functions: The Essential Semantic Categories of Arthurian Romance -- CHAPTER TWO. Episodes: The Functions as a Dynamic System -- CHAPTER THREE. Episodes in Series: The Whole Romance -- CONCLUSION. Contradiction and Meaning: The Intersecting Systems of Arthurian Romance -- APPENDIX. English Summaries of the Less Familiar Romances -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book begins by dissociating itself from two biases that have constrained much of the scholarship on the structure of Middle High German Arthurian romance: the traditional prejudice in favour of the great romances (Erec, Iwein, and Parzival) and the notion that structural analysis is merely the handmaiden of interpretation. By expanding the corpus under consideration to include all twelve romances, Professor Schultz is able to develop a structural model that attempts to do justice to the entire genre, not merely to its most famous representatives. By pursuing structural analysis for its own sake, he is able to investigate structures of many different kinds, not merely those that advance a single interpretation. The book falls into three principal parts. The first treats the semantic building blocks of Arthurian romance: the World, Society, the Other, the Hero, the Mediator, and the Recipient. Each of these represents a body of traditional meaning; in combination they generate the characteristic roles, themes, and spatial structures of romance. The second major part treats the individual episode: first its skeleton, the linear structure of the archetypical episode and its principal variants; then substance, the realization of this skeleton by the addition of actors and their attributes, perspectives, and ostensible causes; finally, surface, the consequences of the narrator's activity in generating the actual text. The third part of the book works through these same categories from the perspective of the entire romance: the varieties of skeletal structure that determines its overall shape; the ways in which the addition of substantial elements fosters coherence; the importance of the narrator in determining our understanding of an entire romance and our conception of romance as a literary genre. This book concludes with a brief code devoted to contradiction. Schultz shows that the numerous internal inconsistencies of Arthurian romance -- a feature of the genre for which it has often been taken to task -- can be explained in a number of ways: as the result of a peculiarly medieval devotion to local detail; as the consequence of intrinsic tensions in the structure of the genre; and as the reflection of certain general properties of literary texts. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Arthurian romances History and criticism. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Epic poetry, German History and criticism. German poetry Middle High German, 1050-1500 History and criticism. Knights and knighthood in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487583361 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487583361 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487583361.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Word of Thanks -- A Word on Citations, Notes, and Unfamiliar Literature -- INTRODUCTION. Prescriptive Interpretation and Descriptive Poetics -- CHAPTER ONE. Six Functions: The Essential Semantic Categories of Arthurian Romance -- CHAPTER TWO. Episodes: The Functions as a Dynamic System -- CHAPTER THREE. Episodes in Series: The Whole Romance -- CONCLUSION. Contradiction and Meaning: The Intersecting Systems of Arthurian Romance -- APPENDIX. English Summaries of the Less Familiar Romances -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Word of Thanks -- A Word on Citations, Notes, and Unfamiliar Literature -- INTRODUCTION. Prescriptive Interpretation and Descriptive Poetics -- CHAPTER ONE. Six Functions: The Essential Semantic Categories of Arthurian Romance -- CHAPTER TWO. Episodes: The Functions as a Dynamic System -- CHAPTER THREE. Episodes in Series: The Whole Romance -- CONCLUSION. Contradiction and Meaning: The Intersecting Systems of Arthurian Romance -- APPENDIX. English Summaries of the Less Familiar Romances -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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