Perceval/Parzival: A Casebook

by Arthur Groos (Editor), Norris J. Lacy (Editor)

Overview

This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who becomes the Grail hero in some texts and yet is eclipsed in others by Galahad. Also includes eight musical examples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138978164
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/13/2016
Series:	Arthurian Characters and Themes , #9
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Arthur Groos is a Professor of German Studies at Cornell University

Table of Contents

Series Preface Norris J. Lacy Introduction Arthur Groos & Norris J. Lacy Bibliography 1. Donald Maddox: Rexque futurus: The Anterior Order in Le Conte du graal 2. Norris J. Lacy: Perlesvaus and the Perceval Palimpest 3. Brynley Roberts: Peredur Son of Efrawg 4. Arthur Groos, Dialogic Transpositions: The Grail Hero Wins a Wife 5. Wolfgang Mohr: Parzival's Knightly Guilt 6. Dennis Green: Parzival's Failures (Books V and VII) 7. Marianne Wynn: Parzival and Gawan: Hero and Counterpart 8. L. P. Johnson: The Grail Question in Wolfram and Elsewhere 9. Marianne E. Kalinke: The Saga of Perceval the Kinght 10. Caroline Eckhardt: Arthurian Comedy: The Simpleton-Hero in Sir Perceval of Galles 11. Dhira B. Mahoney: Mallory's Percivale: A Case of Competing Genealogies? 12. Alan Lupack: Perceval's 'Very Secondary Position' in Victorian Literature and Beyond 13. Carl Dahlhaus: Parsifal 14. Kevin J. Harty: From Grail Seeker to Fisher King: Perceval on Film