The Repetition Game. An Essay on the Czech Tandariáš
Das Wiederholungsspiel. Ein Versuch über den tschechischen Tandariáš
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2020Publisher
Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaPraha
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Brücken (web)ISSN: 1803-456X
Periodical publication year: 2020
Periodical Volume: 27
Periodical Issue: 2
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Tandariáš, Wiederholung, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightIn this essay, I try to read the Czech Tandariáš not in relation to its much longer German model, but on its own right. The short version brings an element to the fore which is lost in the longer German text, namely its repetitive nature. Repetition thus becomes the main element of the text. Certainly not as a source (or reflection of a common source), but as a parallel phenomenon I look for comparison to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Concluding, I discuss possible reasons for the foregrounding of repetions, ranging from poetological implications to the (ritualistic, incantational) evocation and, at the same time, criticism of knightly values.