Date of Degree
2011
Document Type
thesis
Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Department
German
First Advisor
Glenn Ehrstine
Abstract
This thesis examines the treatment of real and fictitious Eastern cultures in three works of German medieval literature: "Herzog Ernst", Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parzival", and Otto von Diemeringen's version of "The Travel's of Sir John Mandeville". Using Edward Said's "Orientalism" as a framework for examining these narratives, this paper determines that each text's protagonists use chivalric, religious, and racial aspects of medieval culture as a lens to judge foreign cultures.
Pages
iii, 53
Bibliography
51-53
Copyright
Copyright 2011 Carl Roland Follmer
Recommended Citation
Follmer, Carl Roland. "Finding the familiar in the foreign: Saracens, monsters, and medieval German literature." master's thesis, University of Iowa, 2011.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1138.