Perceval/Parzival
A Casebook
1st Edition
Published on 13. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-138-97816-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who becomes the Grail hero in some texts and yet is eclipsed in others by Galahad. Also includes eight musical examples.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-97816-4 (9781138978164)
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Persons
Arthur Groos is a Professor of German Studies at Cornell University
Content
Series Preface Norris J. Lacy Introduction Arthur Groos & Norris J. Lacy Bibliography 1. Donald Maddox: Rexque futurus: The Anterior Order in Le Conte du graal 2. Norris J. Lacy: Perlesvaus and the Perceval Palimpest 3. Brynley Roberts: Peredur Son of Efrawg 4. Arthur Groos, Dialogic Transpositions: The Grail Hero Wins a Wife 5. Wolfgang Mohr: Parzival's Knightly Guilt 6. Dennis Green: Parzival's Failures (Books V and VII) 7. Marianne Wynn: Parzival and Gawan: Hero and Counterpart 8. L. P. Johnson: The Grail Question in Wolfram and Elsewhere 9. Marianne E. Kalinke: The Saga of Perceval the Kinght 10. Caroline Eckhardt: Arthurian Comedy: The Simpleton-Hero in Sir Perceval of Galles 11. Dhira B. Mahoney: Mallory's Percivale: A Case of Competing Genealogies? 12. Alan Lupack: Perceval's 'Very Secondary Position' in Victorian Literature and Beyond 13. Carl Dahlhaus: Parsifal 14. Kevin J. Harty: From Grail Seeker to Fisher King: Perceval on Film