1997
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This concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan approaches the work both through its context and through a close reading of key passages of the text. The close textual reading builds up a distinctive interpretation of the work, in which particular attention is paid to Gottfried's reworking of literary tradition, his use of religious analogies, and his awareness of the fictive potential of literary language.
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Mark Chinca
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Mark Chinca works on medieval literature, with with particular research interests in aesthetics and poetics (especially the theory of fiction) and in the literature of death and dying. He also teaches some early modern topics as well as the history of the German language. He is the author of two books: History, fiction, verisimilitude (London 1993) and Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan (Cambridge 1997), and he has co-edited three further volumes: Blütezeit (Tübingen 2000), Orality and literacy in the middle ages (Turnhout, 2004); and Mittelalterliche Novellistik (Berlin 2006). Currently he is finishing the manuscript of a book (provisionally entitled Remember thy last end: texts and the meditation of death in western Europe, from the 'Somme le Roi' to Martin Luther), producing a major edition of the A, B, and C recensions of the Kaiserchronik with Christopher Young and Jürgen Wolf (Marburg), and is engaged in several other projects relating to German literature of the period 1050-1170.
