History, Fiction, Verisimilitude: Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s Tristan

Mark Chinca

History, Fiction, Verisimilitude
Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s Tristan

Mark Chinca

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MHRA Texts and Dissertations 35

Bithell Series of Dissertations 18

Modern Humanities Research Association for the Institute of Germanic Studies

1 January 1993

ISBN: 978-1-839546-73-0 (Hosted on this website)

Open Access with doi: 10.59860/td.b7be3da

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This study of Gottfried von Strassburg discusses the narrative technique of his romance Tristan (c. 1210) against the double background of Latin rhetoric and poetics on the one hand, and the developing written vernacular tradition on the other. It argues that Gottfried’s poetics represents the attempt to mediate between opposing tendencies in vernacular narrative, the one historiographic and archival, the other fictional and experimental.

Verisimilitude, the ‘res ficta quae tamen fieri potest’, occupies an intermediate position between the res factae of history and the res fictae of poetry; it is on this middle ground that Gottfried situates his narrative.

This book, originally published in paperback in 1993 under the ISBN 978-0-947623-49-4, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.

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i-viii, 1-135	History, Fiction, Verisimilitude: Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s ‘Tristan’ Mark Chinca Complete volume as single PDF The complete text of this book.	Read

i-viii	History, Fiction, Verisimilitude: Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s ‘Tristan’ - Front Matter Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c8cb111 Contents, Preface, and List of Illustrations.	Read Cite
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1-14	Chapter I: Introduction Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c050ece Poetics in the medieval school curriculum; the influence of Ernst Robert Curtius in the historiography of this period; Walter Haug’s contrary view; Gottfried von Strassburg and his predecessors; the German narrative tradition around 1200; previous studies.	Read Cite
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15-45	Chapter II: The Vernacular Narrative Between Archive and Experiment Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c160315 Archival narratives; Experimental narratives; Gottfried von Strassburg: poeta or historiographus?	Read Cite
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46-60	Chapter III: History and the Love Story: Archival Topics in Tristan Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c26f75c Retrospection; Istorje, geste and the senemaere; The path through the archives; Memoria; History in the poetics of the senemaere.	Read Cite
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61-85	Chapter IV: Poeta et Historiographus: The Example of Lucan Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c37eb3f Patterns in the medieval reception of the Pharsalia; Fiction and the supernatural: the poeta-vates complex; Fiction and diction: the poet as colourist.	Read Cite
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86-99	Chapter V: The Law of Verisimilitude Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c48df86 Anselm of Laon on verisimilitude; The law of verisimilitude in Thomas and Gottfried.	Read Cite
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100-09	Chapter VI: Verisimilitude and the Argumentum Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c59d3cd Argumentum: a narrative genre; Tristan’s combat with Morold.	Read Cite
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110-22	Chapter VII: Tristan as Narrator Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c6ac42c Tristan’s unreliable stories, sometimes motivated and sometimes seemingly gratuitous.	Read Cite
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123-35	History, Fiction, Verisimilitude: Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s ‘Tristan’ - End Matter Mark Chinca doi:10.59860/td.c6aef93 Bibliography, Index, and back cover.	Read Cite
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History, Fiction, Verisimilitude Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s Tristan

Mark Chinca

History, Fiction, Verisimilitude
Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s Tristan