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Der lange Weg zu einem ›anderen‹ Chrétien

Zur Nachkriegsforschung über den Conte du Graal
  • Friedrich Wolfzettel
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Abstract

This broad survey of scholarship on Chrétien’s Conte du Graal since World War II would like to show a remarkable shift from the ›classic‹ concept of continuity of Chrétien’s romances including the last one to the growing awareness of the unprecedented aspects of the work. From Howard Bloch to Francis Dubost and others we are confronted with the otherness of a romance that was not even fully appreciated by the contemporary reader Wolfram von Eschenbach. The Conte du Graal appears more and more as an experiment in crisis, an aporetic ›myth‹ and an unfinished opera aperta (Umberto Eco) in search of itself.

Abstract

This broad survey of scholarship on Chrétien’s Conte du Graal since World War II would like to show a remarkable shift from the ›classic‹ concept of continuity of Chrétien’s romances including the last one to the growing awareness of the unprecedented aspects of the work. From Howard Bloch to Francis Dubost and others we are confronted with the otherness of a romance that was not even fully appreciated by the contemporary reader Wolfram von Eschenbach. The Conte du Graal appears more and more as an experiment in crisis, an aporetic ›myth‹ and an unfinished opera aperta (Umberto Eco) in search of itself.

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