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Neil Thomas.
The Defence of Camelot: Ideology and Intertextuality in the ‘Post-Classical’ German Romances of the Matter of Britain Cycle.
Published Bern: Peter Lang, 1992.
Series: Deutsche Literatur von den Anfängen bis 1700, band 14.
ISBN 3261045906.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in Germany.
Size: 154×224×14mm.
Page count: [viii],255pp.
Main language: English; quotations mostly given with a following translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has some marks on its covers with some scuffs and creases, some wear at the edges and corners; page edges a bit grubby with some small stains; the spine is a bit wrinkled but not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price SFR75.00/€53.60/£48.00/US$80.95]
Weight without packaging: 385g.

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Contents: Male Cinderellas — the later Fair Unknown tradition — Wigamur & German reception of the Lancelot legend; Camelot reclaimed — Arthurian trilogy of Der Pleier; Visions of salvation — Parzival & background of the crusades — Der Jüngere Titurel & kingdom of Prester John — Diu Crône; Tristan, Lancelot & the Grail; Der Nüwe Parzifal.
Appendices: summaries of some major romances.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 17pp
Index: yes

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