Author: Groos, Arthur
Title: Romancing the Grail : Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram's Parzival
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi,270 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Endings & Beginnings: Wolfram's 'Parzival' and Romance Narrative; Between Poetics & Prosaics: 'Parzival' and Prenovelistic Discourse; From Pastoral to Romance: The Grail Hero Discovers Knighthood; Carnivalizing the Court: Parzival's Knighting Ceremony; Dialogic Transpositions: The Grail Hero Wins a Wife; Parzival and the Grail: Time, Space, & the Liturgical Calendar at Munsalvaesche; The Enchanted Body: Treating the Fisher King; From Romance to Revelation: Cundrie's Announcement; From Medicine to Miracle: Healing the Fisher King; Inconclusive Speech Acts: Trevrizent's "Retraction".

Keywords: Medieval Literature, Arthurian Legend, Grail Narratology, Literary Criticism, Wolfram, von Eschenbach, Parzival, Perceval, Romance Narrative