Wolfram von Eschenbach (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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All surviving manuscripts of works attributed to Wolfram von Eschenbach lead to the conclusion that he was exclusively a poet. His masterpiece, Parzival, is considered the father of the Bildungsroman, or novel of development. This paternity is extremely tenuous, however, resting on affinities of characterization rather than of genre; the first recognizable novel did not appear until some 450 years after Parzival.
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Although Wolfram von Eschenbach was roundly criticized by his contemporary [The entire page is 4251 words long]
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