Arthur B. Groos (born 5 February 1943 in Fullerton, California) is an American philologist, musicologist, medievalist and

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. Groos began teaching at

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in 1973, held the Avalon Foundation Professorship in Humanities, and was granted emeritus status upon retirement. He was co-editor of the ''Cambridge Opera Journal'' alongside Roger Parker. A ''

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'' was published in Groos's honor in 2020.

Selected publications

*Groos, Arthur. ''Romancing the Grail: Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram's "Parzival."'' New York: Cornell University, 1995. *

References

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