ROMANCING THE GRAIL GENRE , SCIENCE AND QUEST IN WOLFRAM'S PARZIVAL
Language: English
Published by CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, ITHACA N.Y, 1995
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- Title
- ROMANCING THE GRAIL GENRE , SCIENCE AND QUEST IN WOLFRAM'S PARZIVAL
- Author
- GROOS ARTHUR
- Publisher
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, ITHACA N.Y
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801430682
- ISBN 13
- 9780801430688
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- Edition
- 1st Edition
Taking as his starting point the assertion by the Russian narrative theorist Mikhail Bakhtin that Parzival achieved a pluralism of novelistic discourse generally associated with more recent works, Groos traces several strands of narrative - especially Arthurian and Grail. He focuses on crucial episodes in the hero's quest, ranging from his discovery of knighthood to the healing of the Fisher King, and shows how Wolfram transposes the clerical French perspective of Chretien de Troyes's Li Contes del Graal into the context of chivalric German culture. Examining the variety of language registers and genres incorporated in Parzival, Groos demonstrates that the interaction of chivalric romance, hagiography, dynastic chronicle, and scientific and medical treatise produces a decentered fictional universe in which various religious and secular viewpoints enter into dialogue. In the Grail episodes in particular, Groos finds a narrative universe that both suggests a transcendent teleology and resists ideological closure.
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