Dr. Neil Edwards THOMAS

Geb. 1949, Reader seit 1976, Durham, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - Medieval European literature and its reception; Interpreting; Modern German history and culture (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Durham - Department of German, School of Modern Languages and Cultures - Unversity of Durham - Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3JT

Besondere Forschungsgebiete German and French literature of the Middle Ages: intetertextual relations

Monographien

A German View of Camelot: Wirnt von Gravenberg's 'Wigalois' and Arthurian tradition (1987)
The Medieval German Arthuriad: Some contemporary revaluations of the canon (1989)
Tristan in the Underworld: A Study of Gottfried's 'Tristan' together with the 'Tristan' of Thomas (1991)
The Defence of Camelot: Ideology and Intertextuality in the 'post-classical' German romances of the Matter of Britain Cycle (1992)
Reading the 'Nibelungenlied' (1995)
'Diu Crone' and the Medieval Arthurian Cycle (2002)
The Development of the Tristan and Iseut Legend (2003, co-authored)
Wirnt von Gravenberg's 'Wigalois'. Intertextuality and Interpretation (2005)
In preparation: The Gawain Figure in the 'Conte du Graal' and 'Parzival'
'Tristan' between Gottfried von Strassburg and Wagner(Handbuch)
The'Nibelungenlied' and the Ring Cycle' (Handbuch)

Aufsätze und Beiträge

Konrad von Stoffeln's 'Gauriel von Muntabel': a comment on Hartmann's 'Iwein'? (OGS, 1988)
The testimony of Saxo Grammaticus and the interpretation of the 'Nibelungenlied' (OGS, 1991/92)
The 'Nibelungenlied' and the Third Reich in Celtic and Germanic Themes in European Literature, ed. N Thomas (1994), 1994
The uses and abuses of medieval studies, Durham University JournalLV (1994)
The reception of the Prose 'Lancelot' in France and Germany' in Nouveaux Mondes, ed Richard Maber (1994)
The German Language in Europe: Historical and Political Dimensions (paper of Durham Centre for Europen Studies, 1994)
On German Courtesy. An historical overview, Durham University Journal LV (1994)
'Durmart le Galois': a demystified version of the Perceval story'(Paregon 13 (1995);'Der Arme Heinrich': Narrative model and political implication, MLR 90 (1995)

The politics of romance. Some observations on the 'Roman d'Yder' in The Formation of Culture in Medieval Britain (Fs Constance Bullock-Davies), ed F Le Saux 1995
Teaching German before the Millennium, Durham University Journal LVI (1995), 153-7
Medieval Literature and Mythology and The secularisation of myth; 'Les Merveilles de Rogomer' as a contrafactura of the French Grail romances in Myth and its Legacy, ed Thomas and F Le Saux
Arthurian evidences: the historicity and historicisation of King Arthur (Durham University Journal LVI (1996)
The Arthurian Legend in the North, Northern Review 5(1997)
Gauvain's guilt in l'Atre Perilleux: the subtext of sexual abuse, Reading Medieval Studies 23 (1997)
'Some old and new perspectives on European unity' in Unity and difference in Europen Cultures, ed. N. Thomas (1998); The excumenical ideal in Wolfram von Eschenbach revisited, ABaG 50 (1998)
Wolfram von Eschenbach: modes of narrative presentation in A Companion to WvE, ed Will Hasty (1999)
Tears of the Fatherland anno 2000 in German Studies before the Millennium, ed N. Thomas (1999)
The flight to the forest in the 'Vita Merlini': Madness or contemptus mundi? Arthuriana 10 (2000)
Siner tugende anegenge sagen'. The rewriting of Arthurian (hi)story in 'Diu Crone', MLR 95 (2000);The German Language in The Encyclopaedia of Literary Translation, ed. O. Classe (2001)
Tristan between Gottfried von Strassburg, Wagner and Thomas Mann, in The Development of the Tristan and Iseut Legend, ed Thomas, Noble, Hardman, Le Saux (2001); Duplicity and Duplexity: the Isolde of the White hands sequence in Gottfried von Strassburg. A Casebook, ed. Will Hasty
Text gegen Texte. Zum Thema Intertextualitat in Der Crone in Dialog, ed Henkel, Jones, Palmer (2003)
Wigalois and Parrzival: father and son roles in Arthurian Studies for P.J.Field (2004)
Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Parzival-Problematik im 'Wigalois'(ABaG 56 (2004)
What made Wigalois a medieval best seller? (in preparation)

Herausgebertätigkeit

EDITED VOLUMES: Celtic and Germanic themes in European Literature (1994)
Myth and its Legacy in European Literature (1996)
Unity and Difference in European Cultures (1998)
German Studies at the Millennium (1999)
Utopias in European Life and Literature (2000)
Writing War (2004, co-edited)
In preparation: Courts and Courtiers (2007)

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen BA, PhD (Wales)

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