UID:
almafu_9959230308902883
Format:
1 online resource (317 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-136-51000-1
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0-203-05418-0
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1-283-88626-X
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1-136-50993-3
Series Statement:
Arthurian characters and themes ; Volume 6
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; PERCEVAL/PARZIVAL; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; 1 Rexque futurus: The Anterior Order in Le Conte du graal; 2 Perlesvaus and the Perceval Palimpsest; 3 Peredur Son of Efrawg; 4 Dialogic Transpositions: The Grail Hero Wins a Wife; 5 Parzival's Knightly Guilt; 6 Parzival's Failure (Books V and VI); 7 Parzival and Gâwân: Hero and Counterpart; 8 The Grail Question in Wolfram and Elsewhere; 9 The Saga of Parceval the Knight; 10 Arthurian Comedy: The Simpleton-Hero in Sir Perceval of Galles
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11 Malory's Percivale: A Case of Competing Genealogies?12 ""A Very Secondary Position"": Perceval in Modern English and American Literature; 13 Parsifal; 14 Parsifal and Perceval on Film: The Reel Life of a Grail Knight
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-97816-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8153-0781-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203054185
