This volume of essays on German narrative literature of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries commemorates the sixty-fifth birthday of Professor Roy Albert Wisbey on 13 June 1994, and with it his unwelcome departure from the Chair of German in the University of London at King's College.
Author(s): Volker Honemann, Martin Η. Jones, Adrian Stevens, David Wells (eds.)
Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Year: 1994
Language: English, German
Pages: VI+410
City: Tübingen
Preface 1
Acknowledgements 4
List of Contributors 5
Abbreviations 6
"Vrume rîtr und guote vrouwen / und wîse phaffen". Court Literature and its Audience / D. H. Green 7
Zur mittelalterlichen Roman-Hermeneutik: Noch einmal Thomasin von Zerklaere und das Integumentum / Christoph Huber 27
Lance and Shield in the "buhurt" / William Henry Jackson 39
Editionsdesiderate und computergestütztes Edieren am Beispiel der "Christherre-Chronik" / Kurt Gärtner 55
Sethites and Cainites: The Narrative Problem of Adam's Progeny in the Early Middle High German Genesis Poems / Brian Murdoch 83
The Journeys of the Apostles in the German Premendicant Sermons: On the Feast of the Separation of the Apostles / David Α. Wells 99
"Solaz nos faz antiquitas": Erwägungen zum Prolog des "Alexanderliedes" und zur Entwicklung volkssprachlicher Erzählweise / Alois Wolf 123
"Honor imperii - des riches ere": Idea of Empire in Konrad's "Rolandslied" / Jeffrey Ashcroft 139
The Secular Foe and the "Nibelungenlied" / Α. Τ. Hatto 157
The Severed Heads: On the Deaths of Gunther and Hagen / John L. Flood 173
"Schame" in the Works of Hartmann von Aue / David Ν. Yeandle 193
Changing Tack or Showing Tact? Erec's Self-Criticism in the Second Encounter with Guivreiz in Hartmann von Aue's "Erec" / Martin Η. Jones 229
Heroine without a Name: The Unnamed Girl in Hartmann's Story / Marianne Wynn 245
"Heinrich und die Folgen": Zur Rezeption des "Armen Heinrich" bei Hans Pfitzner, Ricarda Huch, Gerhart Hauptmann und Rudolf Borchardt / Fred Wagner 261
Treating the Fisher King ("Parzival", Book IX) / Arthur Groos 275
From Alischanz to Wülpensant / Marion Ε. Gibbs 305
Memory, Reading & the Renewal of Love: On the Poetics of Invention in Gottfried's "Tristan" / Adrian Stevens 319
"Circularity signifies Simplicity": Notes on the Intellectual Context of Gottfried's Love Grotto Allegory / Peter W. Hurst 337
Wigalois' Kampf mit dem roten Ritter. Zum Verständnis der Hojir-Aventiure in Wirnts "Wigalois" / Volker Honemann 347
Motiv- und Handlungsschichten in Strickers "Daniel" / Helmut Birkhan 363
Herrschaft, Buße, Liebe: Modelle adliger Identitätsstiftung in "Mai und Beaflor" / Volker Mertens 391
