‘He ne wiste nother of evyll ne gude’: A Prelapsarian Perceval

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-127
Author(s):  
Susanne Hafner
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Wolfram Von Eschenbach ◽  
English Version ◽  
Middle English Romance ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes

AbstractDeparting from the observation that the Middle English romance of Sir Perceval of Galles quotes from Genesis at two crucial moments, this study provides a coherent reading of the text, explaining some of its idiosyncrasies and triangulating it with the versions of Chrétien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach. What distinguishes the Middle English version from the continental texts are its purposeful absences, i. e. that which the author chooses to abbreviate or leave out altogether. The result is the story of a prelapsarian creature who stumbles through an Edenic landscape where time and mortality have been suspended and individual culpability does not exist. Sir Perceval’s non-existent biblical knowledge, blocked by his mother and ultimately brought to its end by a literal fall from his horse, leaves him invincible, ungendered and immortal. It also serves to explain his unapologetic violence as well as his complete lack of sexual desire. This bold experiment cannot last – Sir Perceval does eventually discover knighthood, masculinity and mortality. Unfortunately, these three are inseparably linked: being a knight, being a man and being dead are one and the same thing in Sir Perceval’s universe.

scholarly journals Traducción y estilo narrativo. El caso de Hartmann von Aue y la novela cortesana alemana

Hikma ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Antonio REGALES
Keyword(s):  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Hartmann Von Aue ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
Novela Cortesana ◽  
Erec Et Enide

En este trabajo abordo el problema de la originalidad y la traducción en las novelas épicas medievales que eran consideradas como auténticas traducciones. Los poetas cortesanos son auténticos traductores, lo que redunda en favor del fenómeno de la traducción. Son traductores sui generis que aumentaban y suprimían partes del original. Hartmann von Aue traduce rara vez de manera estricta, sino que traduce el sentido, interpretando para el público. El autor añade diálogos, descripciones y otros adornos retóricos. Incluso modifica los personajes. Hago un estudio de Eric de Hartmann von Aue y una comparación de esta obra con su fuente, el Erec et Enide de Chrétien de Troyes.

scholarly journals A letra e a voz em três romances do Graal

Signo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (66) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Demétrio Alves Paz
Keyword(s):  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Wolfram Von Eschenbach ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes

O presente ensaio tem por objetivo analisar o narrador e os personagens em três romances de cavalaria que tratam do Graal: Perceval, de Chrétien de Troyes; Parsifal, de Wolfram von Eschenbach e A Demanda do Santo Graal, texto anônimo português. Após a análise do contexto de produção das obras, utilizam-se as ideias de Paul Zumthor e de Walter Benjamim a respeito da relação entre oralidade e escrita para comentar o narrador presente nos romances. Depois, investigam-se os personagens de acordo com a tipologia proposta por Antonio Prieto. Os dois primeiros romances que tratam do Graal estão mais próximos não só da oralidade como também do mito, ao passo que no texto português há um controle maior da narração devido ao seu caráter religioso.

Fabian Sietz, Erzählstrategien im Rappolsteiner Parzifal. Zyklizität als Kohährenzprinzip. Studien zur historischen Poetik 25. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017, 328 S.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 480-481
Author(s):  
Adam Oberlin
Keyword(s):  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Wolfram Von Eschenbach ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Religious Writings ◽  
Conte Du Graal

Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival survives in nearly 90 codices and manuscript fragments, the latter as small as portions of a single folio and the former as Sammelhandschriften with several hundred extant folia. One example of a longer ms. among them is Cod. Sang. 857, also known as the Nibelungenlied B ms. or St. Galler Epenhandschrift, which includes as complete texts or fragments Parzival, Nibelungenlied, Diu Klage, Karl der Große (Stricker), Willehalm (also Wolfram von Eschenbach), and a few other shorter poems and religious writings. Another example is the object of research in Fabian Sietz’s wide-ranging study of narrative strategies, <?page nr="481"?>namely Cod. Donaueschingen 97 in the Karlsruhe Landesbibliothek – the remarkably complete and well-preserved Rappolsteiner Parzival (the codex has been digitized and can be found here: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/id/101664">https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/id/101664</ext-link>). Unlike the St. Gall ms., the Rappolsteiner Parzival includes not only Wolfram’s text but also a continuation adapted from Chrétien de Troyes’ Conte du Graal.

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