Table of Contents

Introduction - Will Hasty
Gahmuret and Herzeloyde: Gone but not Forgotten - Francis G. Gentry
Ideals of Flesh and Blood: Women Characters in - Marion E. Gibbs
The Significance of the Gawan Story in Parzival - Martin Jones
Doing His Own Thing: Wolfram's Grail - Sidney M. Johnson
Fiction, Plot, and Discourse: Wolfram's Parzival and Its Narrative Sources - Adrian Stevens
Wolfram von Eschenbach: Modes of Narrative Expression - Neil Thomas
Parzival and the Theology of Fallen Man -
Tournaments and Battles in Parzival - W.H. Jackson
Reading, Writing, and Learning in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival - Albrecht Classen
Otherworlds, Alchemy, Pythagoras, and Jung: Symbols of Transformation in Parzival - Winder McConnell
At the Limits of Chivalry in Wolfram's Parzival: An Arthurian Perspective - Will Hasty
Wolfram, Wagner, and the Germans - Ulrich Mueller

About the Author

ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona; he received the title of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions in 2017, in recognition of his outstanding service to German studies.

Reviews

The essays are well written and insightful, and the authors bring a sense of their own delight in a way that will be contagious among a broad readership.' COLLOQUIA GERMANICA 'A very usable introduction to various aspects of Wolfram's Parzifal.
*JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY*