Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's 'Ring'
A Study of the Narrative in Its Relation to the Traditional Topoi of Marriage, Folly and Play
John Benjamins Publishing Company; Amsterdam 1977
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- I. POLEMICS
- A. Author, Work, and Criticism
- B. The Fictional Premise
- II. WITTENWILER'S NARRATIVE IN ITS OWN CONTEXT
- III.THREE TRADITIONAL TOUCHSTONES
- A. The Marriage Motif
- 1. Extant Criticism
- 2. The Traditional Scope
- 3. Marriage and the Ring
- B. The Theme and Presentation of Folly
- 1. Extant Criticism
- 2. The Traditional Scope
- 3. Folly and the Ring
- C. The Play Phenomenon
- 1. Extant Criticism:
- 2. The Traditional Scope:
- 3. Play and the Ring
- IV. THE WORK IN ITS FESTIVE SETTING
- A. Festivity and Social Fantasy
- B. The Ring Revisited
- REFERENCES