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Revision Lectures Paper IX
Week 2
Wolfram von Eschenbach: ‚Parzival‘
Henrike Lähnemann
Beginning of Book IX of Wolfram von Eschenbach‘s ‚Parzival‘ in ms D
Revision Sessions forEarly Texts in German
Wk 1: Nibelungenlied
Wk 2: Parzival
Wk 3: Osterspiele
Wk 4: Heinrich von Morungen
Wk 5: General Questions
2›Willehalm‹-Ms (Cgm 193, III, f. 1r, Quedlinburg/ Halberstadt ca. 1270–1275)
Basic Questions
• When and where? The Historical Background
• How? The Form and Its Tradition
• What? The Plot and the Structure Behind It
• Why? Key Themes and the Agenda Behind It
• For Whom? The Audience and the Reception
3
When and Where 1: Linguistic
Old High German
(500–1050)
Middle High German
(1050–1350)
Early Modern High
German (1350-1650)
• Adaptation from French Issues of Translation Courtly Vocabulary
• Self-representation of “Wolfram” as illiteratus Traces of Orality Rhetorical Figures
• Relationship to previous German literature Courtly RomanceMinnesang
5
How? Structuring Rhyming Couplets
Rhyme Marking the end of a line
Caesura Rhetorical markings for performance
6
How? Book Structure in Ms. D
Buch 9 = 433,1
434,1
Large initial = Books (Lachmann)
Small initiale = 30 structure (Lachmann)
What? The Plot / Messy Family
http://mediaewiki.org/wiki/Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen_%28Wolfram_von_Eschenbach,_Parzival%29
Titurel Line of the Keepers of the Grail
Mazadan
1) Lazaliez Kings of Anschouwe
2) Brickus Kings of the Britons