Forskargruppe i mellomalderfilologi: Stephen Mark Carey

Reading Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival with an Unreliable Companion.

In this talk, I will discuss the relationship between the theoretical assertion of novelistic discourse in this work as well as other 12th and 13th century texts. I will focus on Wolfram's invention and extensive use of speaking names in Parzival. Particularly, I will show how the names can be used as an interpretive key to the work in episodes like the scene with the three drops of blood in the snow.