Arthurian Literature XVII

Arthurian Literature XVII

Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein

Herausgeber: Besamusca, Bart; Busby, Keith; Kooper, Erik
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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 Knight' or the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the 'Walewein', especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA ...