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  1. Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois
    intertextuality and interpretation
    Author: Thomas, Neil
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  D.S. Brewer, Cambridge

    Reappraisal of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois, showing how it confronts and takes issue with - rather than simply imitating - earlier German Arthurian romance more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Reappraisal of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois, showing how it confronts and takes issue with - rather than simply imitating - earlier German Arthurian romance

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1843840383
    Series: Arthurian studies ; v. 62
    Subjects: Guinglain (Legendary character); Arthurian romances
    Other subjects: Wirnt von Grafenberg (13th cent): Wigalois
    Scope: Online-Ressource (167 p), 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-154) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction: The Problematic Reception; 1. Contesting the Canon; The 'Post-Classical' Challenge; Wigalois: Tradition and Innovation; 2. Knights of Fortune; Fortuna's Emissary; The Knight of Fortune's Wheel; 3. Saint and Sinner; The Hero's descensus; The Father's Rehabilitation; 4. Realism and Realpolitik; The Last Battle; The Matter of Closure: Parzival and Wigalois; 5. Romance and Exemplum; The Knight of King Arthur; The Place of Wigalois in German Literary History; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX: Summaries of Related Romances; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX