Keith Busby / Bart Besamusca / Erik Kooper (eds.)

Arthurian Literature XVII

Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein
Herausgeber: Busby, Keith; Kooper, Erik; Besamusca, Bart

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 I>

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 168mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780859915465
• ISBN-10: 0859915468
• Artikelnr.: 21055410

Autorenporträt

Keith Busby, Bart Besamusca, Erik Kooper

Inhaltsangabe

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