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Bridal-Quest Epics in Medieval Germany: A Revisionary Approach

Bridal-Quest Epics in Medieval Germany: A Revisionary Approach

Bowden, Sarah

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Series: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, Book 85

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1907322965
ISBN13: 9781907322969
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: Apr 16 2012
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
König Rother, Salman und Morolf, the Münchner Oswald and Grauer Rock (otherwise known as Orendel) have had a troubled position in the literary history of medieval Germany. Forced into a normative generic framework as either 'Minstrel Epic' (Spielmannsepik) or 'Bridal-quest Epic' (Brautwerbungsepik), these texts have been viewed conventionally according to an essentially teleological classification or a schematic ideal. Bowden challenges the premises of such a view with a detailed history of the textual scholarship, and revaluates these so called 'Bridal quests' on their own terms, offering detailed and suggestive readings of each work without the distortions or limitations inherent in the traditional interpretative model. Sarah Bowden is Powys Roberts Research Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

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