Gottfried von Strassburg and the Medieval Tristan Legend

• Images of Tristan, Michael Curschmann; Tristan - the Celtic material re-examined, W.J.McCann; pageantry and court aesthetic in Gottfried's "Tristan" - the procession of the hunters, Margaret Brown and C.Stephen Jaeger; the depiction of military conflict in Gottfried's "Tristan", martin Jones; the renewal of the classic - aspects of rhetorical and dialectical composition in Gottfried's "Tristan", Adrian Stevens; Goethefried von Strassburg? appropriation and anxiety in Wagner's "Tristan" libretto, Arthur Groos; Marke's royal decline, Thomas Kerth; the role of king Marke in Gottried's "Tristan" and elsewhere, Michael Batts; gottfried's heroine, Marianne Wynn; "Daz lebende paradis"? a consideration of Tristan and Isot in the light of the "huote" discourse, Janet Wharton; "Tristan und Siegfriedliebe" - a comparative study of Gottfried's "Tristan" and the "Nibelungenlied", George Gillespie; "Ez ist ein zunge, dunket mich" - fiction, deception and self-deception in Gottfried's "Tristan", Joan M.Ferrante; finding, guarding and betraying the truth. Isolde's art and skill, and the sweet discretion of the lying in gottfried's "Tristan", Leslie Seiffert; medieval German dwarfs - a footnote to Gottfried's Melto, Sidney M.Johnson; wounds and healings - aspects of salvation and tragic love in gottfried's "Tristan", Petrus W.Tax; the love potion as a poetic symbol in Gottfried's "Tristan", August Closs; "Senen" and "triuwe" - Gottfried's unfinished "Tristan:, H.B.Willson; living in the presence of the past - exemplary perspectives in Gottfried's "Tristan", Roy Wisbey.

`a volume which can be highly recommended to anyone who needs an easily approachable cross-section of well presented and (almost without exception) lucidly argued recent research on varied aspects of Gottfried's Tristanand the medieval legend on which it was based. It is also an admirable book to put into the hands of students-as it is extremely well suited to stirring the imagination and suggesting approaches'.