{"product_id":"german-romance-i-9780859917933","title":"German Romance I","description":"\u003cb\u003eEdition and translation of the first freely invented German Arthurian romance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDer Stricker's \u003ci\u003eDaniel\u003c\/i\u003e is the first freely invented German Arthurian romance, bringing the genre to a new level of originality.  Beginning with Hartmann von Aue's \u003ci\u003eErec\u003c\/i\u003e (c.1185) and up until \u003ci\u003eDaniel\u003c\/i\u003e (c.1210-25),German poets had drawn their tales of King Arthur's knights exclusively from the world of the French romance, most commonly from the oeuvre of the great romançier Chrétien de Troyes; but in relating his eponymous hero's adventuresagainst giants, dwarves and fellow knights, der Stricker made a clean break with this tradition, claims that he received his story from the French poet Alberich de Besançon being considered a formula only.\u003cbr\u003e  This volume presents for the first time together both the original Middle High German text of \u003ci\u003eDaniel\u003ci\u003e and a full English rendering of the 8,482 verses, on facing pages; the text is accompanied by extensive notes, bibliography, and index.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e  MICHAEL RESLER is Professor of German Studies, Boston College, Massachusetts.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Michael Resler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280229871867,"sku":"9780859917933","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859917933.jpg?v=1772483213","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/german-romance-i-9780859917933","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}