Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages: Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goeller on the Occasion of His 80 Th Birthda

ISBN-13: 9783631515525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 380 str.

Klein, Jürgen

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The papers in this book examine the thematic, structural and aesthetic relationship between medieval English literature and a wide variety of more recent modern texts. Some of the contributors re-examine the concepts of authority and representation in Chretien and Malory and of medieval romance and the modern novel, while Caxton s Morte Darthur is interpreted from the point of view of Norbert Elias; other focuses of interest are the love-death motif in nineteenth-century novels, the comic in contemporary British fiction, the literary representations of Arthurian characters (Galahad, Tristan, Gawain), and recent Beowulf translations. In addition, there are socio-historic and generic readings of Chaucer s Sir Thopas and of Troilus and Criseyde, of Ipomadon and Malory s Morte Darthur. Aspects of medieval heritage are uncovered in Horace Walpole, Furst Puckler-Muskau, Georg Kaiser, A. S. Byatt, David Lodge, Fay Weldon, Iris Murdoch, the Irish novelist Eamonn Sweeney and the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, in William Gibson s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer and Peter Ackroyd s recent Clerkenwell Tales. In addition, there is a translation of Karl Heinz Goller s former essay on Chancer s Troilus and Criseyde."

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Contents: Rolf Breuer: Karl Heinz Göller at 80 - Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.: Karl Heinz Göller's Essay 'Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde' Translated into English - Derek Brewer: Some Notes on the Nature of Medieval Romance and the Modern Novel - Robert Weimann: Authority and Representation in Medieval Romance: Chrétien and Malory - Florian Schleburg: Role-Conformity and Role-Playing in Troilus, Pandarus and Criseyde - Manfred Markus: The Holy War in the Popular 'romances of prys': Intertextuality in Chaucer's 'The Tale of Sir Thopas' - Stephan Kohl: Individuality in Middle English Romances: The Case of Ipomadon - Christoph Houswitschka: From Vision to Vainglory: Malory as a Critic of Idealism in the Morte Darthur - Theo Stemmler: Caxton's Morte Darthur: A Confirmation of Norbert Elias' Prozess der Zivilisation? - Jürgen Klein: Architectures of the Mind: Horace Walpole's Distortions of Medieval Romance - Rainer Schöwerling: The Letters of a Dead Man and the Life-Atlas of Fürst Pückler-Muskau as Results of his English Tour - Elisabeth Brewer: The Love-Death Motif in Some Little-Known Nineteenth-Century Novels - Michael Dallapiazza: Medival Tristan and fin de siècle Aestheticism: Georg Kaiser's König Hahnrei - Joerg O. Fichte: 'If you achieve perfection, you die': The Treatment of Galahad in Modern Arthurian Literature - Dieter A. Berger: Resurgent Romance and the Comic in Contemporary British Fiction - Rüdiger Ahrens: The Revival of the Quest in David Lodge's Novel Small World - Franz Meier: Neuromancer/New Romancer: Cyperpunkt and the Tradition of Romance - Hans-Jürger Diller: 'But what about Gawain?' Intertextual Reflections on Irish Murdoch's The Green Knight - Peter Lenz: Circular Quest in the Vale of Tears: Eamonn Sweeney's Waiting for the Healer as Swan Song to the Romanticised Image of Ireland - Wladyslaw Witalisz: Saving the Legend: Andrzej Sapkowski's Re-reading of Tristan in La Maladie - Hans Sauer: Heaneywulf, Liuzzawulf: Two Recent Translations of Beowulf - Uwe Böker: Literary Historians' Gothic, the Romance of the 'Ancient Gothic Constitution', and Peter Ackroyd's Gothic Imagination in The Clerkenwell Tales.