The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations

By Annegret Oehme and University Of Washington

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This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy Roman Empire. The German Wigalois / Viduvilt adaptations grow from a multistage process: a German text adapted into Yiddish adapted into German, creating adaptations actively shaped by a minority culture within a majority culture. The Knight without Boundaries examines five key moments in the Wigalois / Viduvilt tradition that highlight transitions between narratological and meta-narratological patterns and audiences of different religious-cultural or lingual background.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9004425470

ISBN13:9789004425477

Release Date:November 2021

Publisher:Brill

Length:208 Pages

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