A Companion to Gottfried Von Strassburg's Tristan

Name: A Companion to Gottfried Von Strassburg's Tristan
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By Will Hasty

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Strassburg's verse romance Tristan (ca. 1200-1210). Along with his great literary rival Wolfram von Eschenbach and his versatile predecessor Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried is considered one of three greatest poets produced by medieval Germany, and over the centuries his Tristan has lost none of its ability to attract with the beauty of its poetry and to challenge -- if not provoke -- with its sympathetic depiction of adulterous love. The essays, written by a dozen leading Gottfried specialists in Europe and North America, provide definitive treatments of significant aspects of this most important and challenging high medieval version of the Tristan legend. They examine aspects of Gottfried's unparalleled narrative artistry; the important connections between Gottfried's Tristan and the socio-cultural situation in which it was composed; and the reception of Gottfried's challenging romance both by later poets in the Middle Ages and by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, composers, and artists -- particularly Richard Wagner. The volume also contains new interpretations of significant figures, episodes, and elements (Riwalin and Blanscheflur, Isolde of the White Hands, the Love Potion, the performance of love, the female figures) in Gottfried's revolutionary romance, which provocatively elevates a sexual, human love to a summum bonum.
Will Hasty is Professor of German at the University of Florida. He is the editor of A Companion to Wolfram's "Parzival" (Camden House, 1999).

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 330
Release Date:: 2010-06-01
Publication Date:: 2010-06-01
Publisher:: Camden House
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1571134468
ISBN13:: 9781571134462
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 537 g
Height:: 15.2 cm
Width:: 22.9 cm
Thickness:: 1.9 cm

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