The knight without boundaries : Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois adaptations / by Annegret Oehme.
"This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy Roman Empire. The German Wigalois / Viduvilt adaptations grow from a multistage process: a German text ada...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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| Series: | Explorations in medieval culture ;
v. 17. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy Roman Empire. The German Wigalois / Viduvilt adaptations grow from a multistage process: a German text adapted into Yiddish adapted into German, creating adaptations actively shaped by a minority culture within a majority culture. The Knight without Boundaries examines five key moments in the Wigalois / Viduvilt tradition that highlight transitions between narratological and meta-narratological patterns and audiences of different religious-cultural or lingual background"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004472037 9789004472037 |
| ISSN: | 2352-0299 ; |