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Antagonisten im höfischen Roman? Eine Skizze

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Elisabeth Lienert

2018

This contribution (re-)examines the description and multiple functions of selected antagonists in courtly romance around 1200. Excepting romance of antiquity, one rarely encounters equal opponents who represent a contrary system of values and continue to take consequent action against the hero until the end. The texts are centered on their protagonists, lacking an equal narrative counterpart. Hence, the applicability of the concept ‘antagonist’ might be called into question for Arthurian, grail, and Tristan romance.

In Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 147(4): 419-436.

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