The writing and the voice in three Grail novels
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https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v39i66.4665Keywords:
Narrator. Character. Orality. Middle Ages. Grail.Abstract
The objetive of this paper is to analyse the narrator and the characters in the romances of chivalry about the Grail: Perceval, by Chrétien de Troyes; Parsifal, by Wolfram von Eschenbach and A Demanda do Santo Graal, an anonymous portuguese text. After analysing the prodution context of these works, it is used the ideas of Paul Zumthor and Walter Benjamim about the relation of orality and writing to discuss the narrator of the novels. Then, the characters are investigated according to the typology proposed by Antonio Prieto. The first two romances of chivalry about the Grail are closer not only to the orality as well as the myth, whereas in the portuguese text there is a greater control of the narrative due to its religious characteristic.Downloads
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2014-01-03
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Artigos – vol. 39, nº 66, 2014
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Paz, D. A. (2014). The writing and the voice in three Grail novels. Signo, 39(66), 100-117. https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v39i66.4665
