Chapter I: Introduction

Mark Chinca

From History, Fiction, Verisimilitude: Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s Tristan (1993), pp. 1-14, doi:10.59860/td.c050ece

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Mark Chinca

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Abstract.  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.

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