W.P. Gerritsen (1935–2019)
Autore di Miti e personaggi del Medioevo: dizionario di storia, letteratura, arte, musica e cinema
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di W.P. Gerritsen
Miti e personaggi del Medioevo: dizionario di storia, letteratura, arte, musica e cinema (1993) — A cura di — 98 copie
Floris V door de edelen vermoord — Autore — 3 copie
Het alfabet als zoekinstrument 2 copie
Het Antwerps liedboek. 87 melodieën op teksten uit "Een schoon liedekens-boeck" van 1544. Uitgegeven door K. Vellekoop… (1972) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
De eenhoorn en de geleerden 1 copia
Opere correlate
De burggravin van Vergi : een middeleeuwse novelle (1997) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 32 copie
De korte mantel een Arturverhaal uit de dertiende eeuw / vert. door Jean Pierre Rawie en Driek van Wissen . De… (2001) — Introduzione — 11 copie
Aangeraakt, boeken in contact met hun lezers — honoree — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Gerritsen, Willem Pieter
- Altri nomi
- Gerritsen, Wim
- Data di nascita
- 1935-08-12
- Data di morte
- 2019-10-24
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Nederland
- Attività lavorative
- hoogleraar
- Relazioni
- Oostrom, Frits van (leerling)
Draak, Maartje (leermeester) - Organizzazioni
- Universiteit Utrecht
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 148
- Popolarità
- #140,180
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 17
- Lingue
- 3
This is a very user-friendly edition for English-speakers. Each entry typically starts with a short introduction to place the character in a literary or historic context, followed by a synopsis of the principal events in his or her most familiar saga. There is then a critical discussion which also details any subsequent development of the narrative into more recent times, concluded by brief references to principal modern editions, translations and studies. The Lancelot section for example, one of the longest in this book, includes three illustrations from the 13th to the 19th century and discussion of artistic, poetic and novelistic responses to his adventures down to the 1980s, ending with the comment "there seems to be little danger of Lancelot soon losing his prominent position in Arthurian narrative". The entry for Arthur himself, by Frank Brandsma, is authoritative and very detailed, with modern developments in novels, theatre, music and other media extremely well documented.
Around a quarter of the characters listed are directly or indirectly linked with the Arthurian legends (eg Fergus and Yder among the former, Aeneas and Brut among the latter), and several have particularly English connections (eg Bevis of Hampton, Hengest and Horsa, Beowulf) with Cu Chulainn representing the Irish dimension.
The Netherlands, on the crossroads of literary peregrinations between Romance and Northern lands, figures largely as the origin of many of the quoted texts, correcting the rather Anglocentric view that tends to dominate populist literature on his subject here and emphasising that there was a cultural European Union of sorts long before the modern political set-up.
This Dutch A-Z of some ninety figures, originally published in 1993 as Van Aiol tot de Zwaanridder, first appeared in translation in hardback in 1998 with some changes to the original text, not least the addition of the entry on Robin Hood by Richard Barber. This is an extraordinarily stimulating book, whether your interest lies in plot summaries or folktale motifs, cross-cultural influences or native idiosyncracies, or why some tales flourish in a great diversity of retellings while others disappear into a narrative cul-de-sac; certainly this a volume that shouldn't remain on your shelves for long periods.
http://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/heroes/… (altro)