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Parzival
With Titurel and the Love Lyrics
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Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. This book is a new translation of Parzival, together with the fragments of the Titurel, an elegiac offshoot of Parzival, and the nine love-songs attributed to Wolfram. Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. In its depth and complexity of characterisation this work of the early thirteenth century anticipates the modern novel. It encompasses deeds of chivalry, tournaments and sieges, courtly love, and other erotic undertakings, but also sin and penance, and a deeply moving study in depression. All is underpinned by the narrator's irrepressible humour. The central stages are the Grail Castle and Arthur's Round Table, but the pagan world of the Orient also plays its role. Parzival has inspired and influenced works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, Franz Kafka's The Castle, Terry Gilliam's film The Fisher King, and Umberto Eco's Baudolino.CYRIL EDWARDS is a lecturer in German at St Peter's College and Research Fellow of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. He is the author of The Beginnings of German Literature (Camden House, 2002), and numerous articles on the medieval lyric and Old High German. His previous translations include Hans Sachs's 'Song of the Nose' for the King's Singers, Bernhard Maier's Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture (Boydell & Brewer, 1997) and The Medieval Housebook (Prestel-Verlag, 1997).
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd.; June 2004
368 pages; ISBN 9781846151347
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368 pages; ISBN 9781846151347
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- Academic > Business and Commerce > Business > Purchasing. Selling. Sales personnel. Sales executives
- Academic > Literature > German literature > Individual authors or works > Middle High German, ca. 1050-1450/1500
- Academic > Economics > Commerce
- Academic > Literature > German literature > Literary history and criticism
- Poetry > Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Translating & Interpreting
- Folklore & Mythology
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1846151341
9781843840053
9781846151347

