Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan (Landmarks of World Literature)
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This concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan approaches the work both through its context and through a close reading of key passages of the text. The close textual reading builds up a distinctive interpretation of the work, in which particular attention is paid to Gottfried's reworking of literary tradition, his use of religious analogies, and his awareness of the fictive potential of literary language.
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This book offers a concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan. The work is approached both through its context and through a close reading of key passages of the text. The contextual reading compares Gottfried with his predecessors Beroul, Eilhart and Thomas in order to reveal his independent response to the problems and possibilities with which he was confronted by his material. The close textual reading builds up a distinctive interpretation of the work, in which particular attention is paid to Gottfried's reworking of literary tradition, his use of religious analogies and his awareness of the fictive potential of literary language. A concluding chapter examines Gottfried's medieval reception through the work of his continuators, Ulrich von Turheim and Heinrich von Freiberg and the Herzmaere of Konrad von Wurzburg.
Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan (Landmarks of World Literature),Mark Chinca,J. P. Stern,Cambridge University Press,0521408520,13th cent,13th cent.,Ancient, Classical & Medieval,Arthurian romances,Continental European,European - General,European - German,Gottfried,,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Poetry,Romances,Tristan,Tristan (Legendary character),von Strassburg,,German,Germany,Gottfried,--von Strassburg,--13th cent.--Tristan,Literary Criticism & Collections / European,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,Northern Europe, Scandinavia,Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries
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