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03358aam a2200385 i 4500 001 CBC3771600A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 160713t20162016nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016030020 020 $a 1571139710 020 $a 9781571139719 035 $a (OCoLC)950953757 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UBY $d YUS $d SILO 041 1 $a ger $a ger $h ger 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PT1566 L73 M38 2016 100 1 $a Matthews, Alastair, $d 1980- $e author. 245 14 $a The medieval German Lohengrin : $b narrative poetics in the story of the Swan Knight / $c Alastair Matthews. 264 1 $a Rochester, New York : $b Camden House, $c 2016. 300 $a viii, [4] pages of plates, 236 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 520 $a "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 Peter and Paul. In the past, 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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-230) and index. 505 0 $a Note on abbreviations, quotations, and references -- Introduction -- Wolfram and polemic: Lohengrin and the Wartburgkrieg -- Wolfram and chronicles: Lohengrin and the Sachsische Weltchronik -- Lohengrin's journey: identity in transition -- Lohengrin's battles: seeing and hearing identity -- Lohengrin's farewell: knowing identity -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Manuscripts -- Appendix 2: Ottonian Germany in Recension A of the Sachsische Weltchronik: Herzog August Bibliothek WolfenbuÂttel, cod. guelf. 23.8 aug. 4?. 546 $a In English with some passages in German with English translations. 630 00 $a Lohengrin. 650 0 $a Swan-knight (Legendary character) 650 0 $a Knights and knighthood in literature. 650 0 $a German literature $y Middle High German, 1050-1500 $x History and criticism. 830 0 $a Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170405035417.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CBC3771600A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search