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Lädt ... Dictionary of Medieval Heroes: Characters in Medieval Narrative Traditions and Their Afterlife in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Artsvon W. P. Gerritsen (Herausgeber), A. G. van Melle (Herausgeber)
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A treasury of medieval tales about the great heroes of the time is unlocked in this volume. Some are familiar figures, like Charlemagne and his paladins, Arthur and his knights, or Tristan and Isolde, but there are many other lesser-known, but equally fascinating, stories to be found, ranging from the medieval versions of the exploits of Alexander the Great and Aeneas to the parody of heroism in Reynard the Fox. The different cultures from which the middle ages drew its inspiration are represented: Cu Chulainn from the Celtic world, Apollonius of Tyre from Greek romance, Attila the Hun and Theodoric the Ostrogoth from the struggle of the Roman empire against the Barbarians. Each entry gives an outline of the story, how it spread through Europe, its modern retellings and appearances in art, and a selective bibliography. WILLEM GERRITSEN is Professor of Medieval Literature in the University of Utrecht; ANTHONY van MELLE is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, School of Languages, Utrecht. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)809.02Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures By Period 6th-15th centuries, 500-1499Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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This is a very user-friendly edition for English-speakers. Each entry typically starts with a short introduction to place the character in a literary or historic context, followed by a synopsis of the principal events in his or her most familiar saga. There is then a critical discussion which also details any subsequent development of the narrative into more recent times, concluded by brief references to principal modern editions, translations and studies. The Lancelot section for example, one of the longest in this book, includes three illustrations from the 13th to the 19th century and discussion of artistic, poetic and novelistic responses to his adventures down to the 1980s, ending with the comment "there seems to be little danger of Lancelot soon losing his prominent position in Arthurian narrative". The entry for Arthur himself, by Frank Brandsma, is authoritative and very detailed, with modern developments in novels, theatre, music and other media extremely well documented.
Around a quarter of the characters listed are directly or indirectly linked with the Arthurian legends (eg Fergus and Yder among the former, Aeneas and Brut among the latter), and several have particularly English connections (eg Bevis of Hampton, Hengest and Horsa, Beowulf) with Cu Chulainn representing the Irish dimension.
The Netherlands, on the crossroads of literary peregrinations between Romance and Northern lands, figures largely as the origin of many of the quoted texts, correcting the rather Anglocentric view that tends to dominate populist literature on his subject here and emphasising that there was a cultural European Union of sorts long before the modern political set-up.
This Dutch A-Z of some ninety figures, originally published in 1993 as Van Aiol tot de Zwaanridder, first appeared in translation in hardback in 1998 with some changes to the original text, not least the addition of the entry on Robin Hood by Richard Barber. This is an extraordinarily stimulating book, whether your interest lies in plot summaries or folktale motifs, cross-cultural influences or native idiosyncracies, or why some tales flourish in a great diversity of retellings while others disappear into a narrative cul-de-sac; certainly this a volume that shouldn't remain on your shelves for long periods.
http://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/heroes/ ( )