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Between the Carnal and the Spiritual: The Parsifal of T. W. Rolleston

Between the Carnal and the Spiritual: The Parsifal of T. W. Rolleston AbstractDuring the national revival between the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, medieval texts, including the matter of Arthur, became available to audiences both in the form of new editions and creative adaptations. Among the latter, the operas of Richard Wagner, inspired by medieval and, in particular, Arthurian motifs, were influential far beyond Germany. One of the authors who drew inspiration from Wagner’s work was T. W. Rolleston, an Irishman who is better known nowadays for his political works, but who also wrote works inspired by medieval matter, both Celtic and Arthurian. The present article discusses a poem of T. W. Rolleston, Parsifal or the Legend of the Holy Grail, which was published for the first time in 1912, in a luxurious edition illustrated by Willy Pogány. The aim of the article is to examine the interaction between carnality and spirituality in the version of salvation through the Holy Grail created by Rolleston and Pogány, while highlighting the impact of three Rolleston’s sources, Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s romance Parzival and Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the International Arthurian Society de Gruyter

Between the Carnal and the Spiritual: The Parsifal of T. W. Rolleston

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AbstractDuring the national revival between the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, medieval texts, including the matter of Arthur, became available to audiences both in the form of new editions and creative adaptations. Among the latter, the operas of Richard Wagner, inspired by medieval and, in particular, Arthurian motifs, were influential far beyond Germany. One of the authors who drew inspiration from Wagner’s work was T. W. Rolleston, an Irishman who is better known nowadays for his political works, but who also wrote works inspired by medieval matter, both Celtic and Arthurian. The present article discusses a poem of T. W. Rolleston, Parsifal or the Legend of the Holy Grail, which was published for the first time in 1912, in a luxurious edition illustrated by Willy Pogány. The aim of the article is to examine the interaction between carnality and spirituality in the version of salvation through the Holy Grail created by Rolleston and Pogány, while highlighting the impact of three Rolleston’s sources, Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s romance Parzival and Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval.

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Journal of the International Arthurian Society – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2017

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