Perceval / Parzival: A Casebook

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Author: Arthur Groos

ISBN-10: 0815307810

ISBN-13: 9780815307815

Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature

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.

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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.

PrefaceviiIntroduction1Selected Bibliography431Rexque futurus: The Anterior Order in Le Conte du graal532Perlesvaus and the Perceval Palimpsest973Peredur Son of Efrawg1054Dialogic Transpositions: The Grail Hero Wins a Wife1195Parzival's Knightly Guilt1396Parzival's Failure (Books V and VI)1557Parzival and Gawan: Hero and Counterpart1758The Grail Question in Wolfram and Elsewhere1999The Saga of Parceval the Knight21910Arthurian Comedy: The Simpleton-Hero in Sir Perceval of Galles23711Malory's Percivale: A Case of Competing Genealogies?25312"A Very Secondary Position": Perceval in Modern English and American Literature26713Parsifal28714Parsifal and Perceval on Film: The Reel Life of a Grail Knight301