Romancing the Grail : : Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram's "Parzival" / / Arthur Groos.

Arthur Groos here challenges traditional approaches to Wolfram von Eschenbach's quest-romance Parzival (ca. 1210). He offers a new model for reading the text in the light of narrative theory by means of close textual analysis as well as scrupulous investigation of Wolfram's scientific sour...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1995
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Endings and Beginnings: Wolfram’s Parzival and Romance Narrative
  • 1. Between Poetics and Prosaics: Parzival and Prenovelistic Discourse
  • 2 From Pastoral to Romance: The Grail Hero Discovers Knighthood
  • 3 Carnivalizing the Court: Parzival’s Knighting Ceremony
  • 4 Dialogic Transpositions: The Grail Hero Wins a Wife
  • 5 Parzival and the Grail: Time, Space, and the Liturgical Calendar at Munsalvaesche
  • 6 The Enchanted Body: Treating the Fisher King
  • 7 From Romance to Revelation: Cundrie’s Announcement
  • 8 From Medicine to Miracle: Healing the Fisher King
  • 9 Inconclusive Speech Acts: Trevrizent’s “Retraction”
  • Works Cited
  • Index