Of Remembraunce The Keye: Medieval Literature And Its Impact Through The Ages : Festschrift For Karl Heinz Goller On The Occasion Of His 80th Birthday

by Goller, Karl Heinz; Boker, Uwe; BERGER, DIETER A.; Kaylor, Noel Harold

• ISBN13: 9780820465012
• ISBN10: 0820465011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

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 Chretien 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, Furst Puckler-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 Goller's former essay on Chancer's Troilus and Criseyde.

Table of Contents

Karl Heinz Goller at 80	p. 9
Karl Heinz Goller's Essay 'Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde' Translated into English	p. 17
Some Notes on the Nature of Medieval Romance and the Modern Novel	p. 47
Authority and Representation in Medieval Romance: Chretien and Malory	p. 61
Role-Conformity and Role-Playing in Troilus, Pandarus and Criseyde	p. 79
The Holy War in the Popular 'romances of prys': Intertextuality in Chaucer's 'The Tale of Sir Thopas'	p. 95
Individuality in Middle English Romances: The Case of Ipomadon	p. 109
From Vision to Vainglory: Malory as a Critic of Idealism in the Morte Darthur	p. 123
Caxton's Morte Darthur: A Confirmation of Norbert Elias' Prozess der Zivilisation?	p. 139
Architectures of the Mind: Horace Walpole's Distortions of Medieval Romance	p. 149
The Letters of a Dead Man and the Life-Atlas of Furst Puckler-Muskau as Results of his English Tour	p. 173
The Love-Death Motif in Some Little-Known Nineteenth-Century Novels	p. 189
Medieval Tristan and fin de siecle Aestheticism: Georg Kaiser's Konig Hahnrei	p. 203
'If you achieve perfection, you die': The Treatment of Galahad in Modern Arthurian Literature	p. 215
Resurgent Romance and the Comic in Contemporary British Fiction	p. 233
The Revival of the Quest in David Lodge's Novel Small World	p. 251
Neuromancer/New Romancer: Cyberpunk and the Tradition of Romance	p. 267
'But what about Gawain?' Intertextual Reflections on Irish Murdoch's The Green Knight	p. 291
Circular Quest in the Vale of Tears: Eamonn Sweeney's Waiting for the Healer as Swan Song to the Romanticised Image of Ireland	p. 307
Saving the Legend: Andrzej Sapkowski's Re-reading of Tristan in La Maladie	p. 321
Heaneywulf, Liuzzawulf: Two Recent Translations of Beowulf	p. 331
Literary Historians' Gothic, the Romance of the 'Ancient Gothic Constitution', and Peter Ackroyd's Gothic Imagination in The Clerkenwell Tales	p. 349
Editorial Retractatio	p. 379
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