The Knight Without Boundaries

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oehme, Annegret
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2021.
Colección:Explorations in Medieval Culture Ser.
Temas:
Transmission of texts.
German literature > History and criticism.
Yiddish literature > History and criticism.
Transmission de textes.
Littérature allemande > Histoire et critique.
Littérature yiddish > Histoire et critique.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figures
  • Introduction
  • 1 Adapting Wigalois
  • 2 The Return of Wigalois: Disentangling a Shared Tradition
  • 3 A Tradition Revisited: Contemporary Research
  • 4 The Knight without Boundaries: Reconnecting the Disentangled
  • Chapter 1 From Arthurian Romance to Fairy Tale: Concepts of Adaptation in Ammenmährchen and Beyond
  • 1 Retelling, Transforming, and Transferring Medieval Literature
  • 2 Ammenmährchen as Adaptation
  • 3 Storytelling within the Wigalois/Viduvilt Tradition
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 Wigalois: The Heterogeneous Hero and His Narrative World
  • 1 God and Fortuna's Chosen One
  • 2 Between Heathendom and Sorcery
  • 3 Intertextual Hero(in)es
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Viduvilt: The Arthurian Knight Who Speaks Yiddish
  • 1 Viduvilt's Origins, Humor, and Alterations
  • 2 Viduvilt as a "Jewish Text"
  • 3 May God Send the Messiah: Religion and Religious Forces in Viduvilt
  • 4 Knighthood and the Jewish Imagination
  • 5 Knighthood in a Nutshell: The Sketch in Cod. Hebr. 255
  • 6 Arthurian and Anti-Arthurian Adaptations
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Language Matters: Crossing Linguistic and Ethnocultural Borders in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Textbook
  • 1 Wagenseil's Textbook: Mission, Audience, and Language Philosophy
  • 2 Wagenseil's Artis hof Adaptation as Transcultural Narrative
  • 3 Wagenseil's Artis hof as Translational Union
  • 4 Adaptation and Power
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 An Arthurian Knight on the Chinese Imperial Throne: Navigating Divine Providence and Cosmopolitan Identity in Gabein (1788/1789)
  • 1 Is That Yiddish?! Text and Edition of Gabein
  • 2 Nowhere in Camelot: Abandoning the Arthurian Realm
  • 3 Eastwards: Familiarity and Otherness in the Depiction of China
  • 4 The Pious Hero
  • 5 Gabein's Prayers and Christian Theology
  • 6 The Chinese Rites Controversy
  • 7 A Jewish Cosmopolite?
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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