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Uwe
Böker, ed.
Of
Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and its Impact through the
Ages - Festschrift for Karl Heinz Göller on the Occasion of his
80th Birthday..
Frankfurt:
Peter Lang, 2004.
Britannia:
Texts in English: Literature, Culture, History from early modern times
to the present, Vol. 11.
ISBN
3631515529.
Paperback.
382pp.
Publisher's
recommended price SFR95.00/€65.00/£43.00/US$72.95
The
papers in this
book examine the thematic, structural and aesthetic relationship
between
medieval English literature and a wide variety of more recent modern
texts.
Some of the contributors re-examine the concepts of authority and
representation
in Chrétien and Malory and of medieval romance and the modern
novel,
while Caxton's Morte Darthur is interpreted from the point of
view
of Norbert Elias; other focuses of interest are the love-death motif in
nineteenth-century novels, the comic in contemporary British fiction,
the
literary representations of Arthurian characters (Galahad, Tristan,
Gawain),
and recent Beowulf translations. In addition, there are
socio-historic
and generic readings of Chaucer's Sir Thopas and of Troilus
and
Criseyde, of Ipomadon and Malory's Morte Darthur.
Aspects
of medieval heritage are uncovered in Horace Walpole, Fürst
Pückler-Muskau,
Georg Kaiser, A. S. Byatt, David Lodge, Fay Weldon, Iris Murdoch, the
Irish
novelist Eamonn Sweeney and the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, in
William
Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer and Peter Ackroyd's recent
Clerkenwell
Tales. In addition, there is a translation of Karl Heinz
Göller's
former essay on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
Contents:
Rolf
Breuer: Karl Heinz Göller at 80 - Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.: Karl
Heinz
Göller's Essay 'Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde' Translated
into English - Derek Brewer: Some Notes on the Nature of Medieval
Romance
and the Modern Novel - Robert Weimann: Authority and Representation in
Medieval Romance: Chrétien and Malory - Florian Schleburg:
Role-Conformity
and Role-Playing in Troilus, Pandarus and Criseyde - Manfred Markus:
The
Holy War in the Popular 'romances of prys': Intertextuality in
Chaucer's
'The Tale of Sir Thopas' - Stephan Kohl: Individuality in Middle
English
Romances: The Case of Ipomadon - Christoph Houswitschka: From Vision to
Vainglory: Malory as a Critic of Idealism in the Morte Darthur - Theo
Stemmler:
Caxton's Morte Darthur: A Confirmation of Norbert Elias' Prozess der
Zivilisation?
- Jürgen Klein: Architectures of the Mind: Horace Walpole's
Distortions
of Medieval Romance - Rainer Schöwerling: The Letters of a Dead
Man
and the Life-Atlas of Fürst Pückler-Muskau as Results of his
English Tour - Elisabeth Brewer: The Love-Death Motif in Some
Little-Known
Nineteenth-Century Novels - Michael Dallapiazza: Medival Tristan and
fin
de siècle Aestheticism: Georg Kaiser's König Hahnrei -
Joerg
O. Fichte: 'If you achieve perfection, you die': The Treatment of
Galahad
in Modern Arthurian Literature - Dieter A. Berger: Resurgent Romance
and
the Comic in Contemporary British Fiction - Rüdiger Ahrens:
The Revival of the Quest in David Lodge's Novel Small World - Franz
Meier:
Neuromancer/New Romancer: Cyperpunkt and the Tradition of Romance -
Hans-Jürger
Diller: 'But what about Gawain?' Intertextual Reflections on
Irish
Murdoch's The Green Knight - Peter Lenz: Circular Quest in the Vale of
Tears: Eamonn Sweeney's Waiting for the Healer as Swan Song to the
Romanticised
Image of Ireland - Wladyslaw Witalisz: Saving the Legend: Andrzej
Sapkowski's
Re-reading of Tristan in La Maladie - Hans Sauer: Heaneywulf,
Liuzzawulf:
Two Recent Translations of Beowulf - Uwe Böker: Literary
Historians'
Gothic, the Romance of the 'Ancient Gothic Constitution', and Peter
Ackroyd's
Gothic Imagination in The Clerkenwell Tales.
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