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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Reappraisal of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois, showing how it confronts and takes issue with - rather than simply imitating - earlier German Arthurian romance
Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-154) and index
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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