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Author:   Annegret Oehme
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9789004425477

ISBN 10:   9004425470
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   25 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction  1 Adapting Wigalois  2 The Return of Wigalois: Disentangling a Shared Tradition  3 A Tradition Revisited: Contemporary Research  4 The Knight without Boundaries: Reconnecting the Disentangled 1 From Arthurian Romance to Fairy Tale: Concepts of Adaptation in Ammenmährchen and Beyond  1 Retelling, Transforming, and Transferring Medieval Literature  2 Ammenmährchen as Adaptation  3 Storytelling within the Wigalois/Viduvilt Tradition  4 Conclusion 2 Wigalois: The Heterogeneous Hero and His Narrative World  1 God and Fortuna’s Chosen One  2 Between Heathendom and Sorcery  3 Intertextual Hero(in)es  4 Conclusion 3 Viduvilt: The Arthurian Knight Who Speaks Yiddish  1 Viduvilt’s Origins, Humor, and Alterations  2 Viduvilt as a “Jewish Text”  3 May God Send the Messiah: Religion and Religious Forces in Viduvilt  4 Knighthood and the Jewish Imagination  5 Knighthood in a Nutshell: The Sketch in Cod. Hebr. 255  6 Arthurian and Anti-Arthurian Adaptations  7 Conclusion 4 Language Matters: Crossing Linguistic and Ethnocultural Borders in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Textbook  1 Wagenseil’s Textbook: Mission, Audience, and Language Philosophy  2 Wagenseil’s Artis hof Adaptation as Transcultural Narrative  3 Wagenseil’s Artis hof as Translational Union  4 Adaptation and Power  5 Conclusion 5 An Arthurian Knight on the Chinese Imperial Throne: Navigating Divine Providence and Cosmopolitan Identity in Gabein (1788/1789)  1 Is That Yiddish?! Text and Edition of Gabein  2 Nowhere in Camelot: Abandoning the Arthurian Realm  3 Eastwards: Familiarity and Otherness in the Depiction of China  4 The Pious Hero  5 Gabein’s Prayers and Christian Theology  6 The Chinese Rites Controversy  7 A Jewish Cosmopolite?  8 Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Annegret Oehme, Ph.D. (2016), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington. She has published articles on pre-modern German and Yiddish literature in The German Quarterly, Ashkenaz, Daphnis, and Arthuriana, and a short monograph (“He Should Have Listened to His Wife.” The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-modern Wigalois Adaptations [De Gruyter, 2020]).

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