Arthurian Literature XVII
Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman van Walewein
Published on 2. September 1999
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-0-85991-546-5 (ISBN)
Description
New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to encompass European literatures other than French and English; still, however, "an indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library". NOTES AND QUERIES
This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recently become accessible to an English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the Green Knightor the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the Walewein, especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA and ERIK KOOPERof the University of Utrecht are provided by a group of renowned scholars, contributing to the on-going critical appraisal of the Walewein.
KEITH BUSBY is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissane Studies, University of Oklahoma.
Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, ERIK KOOPER, WALTER HAUG, DOUGLAS KELLY, NORRIS J. LACY, MATHIAS MEYER, AD PUTTER, FELICITY RIDDY, THEA SUMMERFIELD, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, BART VELDHOEN, NORBERT VOORWINDEN, LORI WALTERS
This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recently become accessible to an English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the Green Knightor the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the Walewein, especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA and ERIK KOOPERof the University of Utrecht are provided by a group of renowned scholars, contributing to the on-going critical appraisal of the Walewein.
KEITH BUSBY is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissane Studies, University of Oklahoma.
Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, ERIK KOOPER, WALTER HAUG, DOUGLAS KELLY, NORRIS J. LACY, MATHIAS MEYER, AD PUTTER, FELICITY RIDDY, THEA SUMMERFIELD, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, BART VELDHOEN, NORBERT VOORWINDEN, LORI WALTERS
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85991-546-5 (9780859915465)
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Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. DOUGLAS KELLY is Emeritus Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Content
Introduction: The Study of the 'Roman van Walewein' (with Erik Kooper) -
Introduction: The Study of the 'Roman van Walewein' (with Bart Besamusca) - Erik Kooper
The 'Roman van Walewein' as a Postclassical Literary Experiment - Walter Haug
The Pledge Motif in the 'Roman van Walewein': Original Variant and Rewritten Quest - Douglas Kelly
Convention and Innovation in the Middle Dutch 'Roman van Walewein' - Norris J. Lacy
It's Hard to Be Me, or Walewein/Gawan as Hero - Matthias M A Meyer
Walewein in the Otherworld and the Land of Prester John - Ad Putter
Giving and Receiving: Exchange in the 'Roman van Walewein' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - Linda Brosnan
Reading a Motion Picture: Why Steven Spielberg Should Read the 'Roman van Walewein' - Thea Summerfield
The 'Roman van Walewein': Man into Fox, Fox into Man -
The 'Roman van Walewein' Laced with Castles - Bart Veldhoen
Fight Descriptions in the 'Roman van Walewein' and in Two Middle High German Romances. A Comparison - Norbert Voorwinden
Making Bread from Stone: The 'Roman van Walewein' and the Transformation of Old French Romance - Lori J. Walters
Introduction: The Study of the 'Roman van Walewein' (with Bart Besamusca) - Erik Kooper
The 'Roman van Walewein' as a Postclassical Literary Experiment - Walter Haug
The Pledge Motif in the 'Roman van Walewein': Original Variant and Rewritten Quest - Douglas Kelly
Convention and Innovation in the Middle Dutch 'Roman van Walewein' - Norris J. Lacy
It's Hard to Be Me, or Walewein/Gawan as Hero - Matthias M A Meyer
Walewein in the Otherworld and the Land of Prester John - Ad Putter
Giving and Receiving: Exchange in the 'Roman van Walewein' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - Linda Brosnan
Reading a Motion Picture: Why Steven Spielberg Should Read the 'Roman van Walewein' - Thea Summerfield
The 'Roman van Walewein': Man into Fox, Fox into Man -
The 'Roman van Walewein' Laced with Castles - Bart Veldhoen
Fight Descriptions in the 'Roman van Walewein' and in Two Middle High German Romances. A Comparison - Norbert Voorwinden
Making Bread from Stone: The 'Roman van Walewein' and the Transformation of Old French Romance - Lori J. Walters