How listeners' responses are rhetorically controlled and guided in Parzival is the subject of this inquiry by a distinguished scholar of medieval German literature. The discussion throughout is organized around the various encounters in the work in which recognition or nonrecognition plays a part.
Discusses when recognition or non-recognition plays a part in the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Preface; Abbreviations;1. Possibilities; 2. Gahmuret (Books I and II); 3. Parzival's youth (Books III and IV); 4. Parzival's failure (Books V and VI); 5. Gawan (Books VII-VIII and X-XIII); 6. Parzival and Trevrizent (Book IX); 7. Parzival's success (Books XIV-XVI); 8. Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.