User:Sindinero/Parzival sandbox

plot
break into individual books

genesis
mention the different manuscripts (Bumke) make clear which parts have precedent in Chretien show differences to Chretien (Bumke, Groos)

themes

 * minne
 * Grail/Graal (what is it, see Bumke)
 * literacy and scholarship (Bumke, Groos - Wolfram's narrative persona as critique of clerics, clerics vs. milites)
 * Arthur's court/Gawan/chivalry

narrative style
heteroglossic (Groos) narrative persona vs. Wolfram's bio (Groos, Bumke) the narrator as a poetic construct (Bumke 216)

reception/legacy

 * place in MHG lit
 * Romanhaftigkeit (Schu)
 * Bakhtin
 * Curschmann contra Bakhtin (Curschmann p. 26?)
 * narrative complexity
 * attitude re: clerical learning