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Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois : intertextuality and interpretation

Reappraisal of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois, showing how it confronts and takes issue with - rather than simply imitating - earlier German Arthurian romance.
Print Book, English, 2005
Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
176 pages ; 24 cm.
9781843840381, 1843840383
57381106
Contesting the canon. The 'post-classical' challenge ; Wigalois: tradition and innovation
Knights of fortune. Fortuna's emissary ; The knight of fortune's wheel
Saint and sinner. The hero's descensus ; The father's rehabilitation
Realism and realpolitik. The last battle ; The matter of closure: Parzival and Wigalois
Romance and exemplum. The knight of King Arthur ; The place of Wigalois in German literary history