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The Medieval German Lohengrin - Narrative Poetics in the Story of the Swan Knight (Hardcover)
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The Medieval German Lohengrin - Narrative Poetics in the Story of the Swan Knight (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The first monograph in English on the German Lohengrin, offering a
new response to the challenges posed by the text. The tale of the
mysterious knight carried across the water by a swan to the woman
he saves and marries is one of the great narrative traditions of
the Middle Ages. The version in the German Lohengrin (ca.1300) is
perhaps the most striking. It captures the imagination with the
appearance of the epic poet Wolfram von Eschenbach as narrator, the
changing forms of the swan, and Lohengrin's appearance as a warrior
alongside Saints Peter and Paul. In thepast, however, Lohengrin has
been dismissed as an awkward amalgamation of earlier sources -
partly due to more recent retellings of the material, such as
Wagner's opera. This first monograph on Lohengrin in English
presents a new response to the challenges the text poses. It is a
study of how we read narrative across temporal distance, and at its
heart lies the question: if a story is not held together by the
chronological and causal links characteristic of modern narratives,
how does it cohere? Alastair Matthews analyzes both the invocations
of Wolfram that frame the text and the story of the Swan Knight
that they enclose, arguing that Lohengrin is defined by a web of
connections in which questions of identity and recognition are
crucial, and thus that the themes at the core of the tale govern
how it is told. Alastair Matthews, DPhil Oxford, is a Marie Curie
ResearchFellow at the Centre for Medieval Literature, University of
Southern Denmark.
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