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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785628703321

Autore

Oergel Maike <1964->

Titolo

The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen [[electronic resource] ] : national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature / / Maike Oergel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, 1998

ISBN

3-11-081254-1

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

European Cultures ; ; 10

Classificazione

HH 7680

Disciplina

820.9/351

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Arthurian romances - Adaptations - History and criticism

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Comparative literature - English and German

Comparative literature - German and English

Mythology, Germanic, in literature

Medievalism - History - 19th century

Middle Ages in literature

Nibelungen in literature

Britons in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Introduction: National Myth - Mythic or National -- CHAPTER 1: The Investment of Literature with Mythic Significance -- CHAPTER 2: The Investment of History with Mythic Significance -- CHAPTER 3: The Search for the Legitimising Mythic Matter of the Moderns: From Homer's Heroes to Gothic Knights and Back -- CHAPTER 4: The National Dimension of the New Mythic Materials: "Volkspoesie", Ballad Revival and the Germanic Nations' Mission in History -- CHAPTER 5: The Representative National Individual: The Emergence of Siegfried and King Arthur -- CHAPTER 6: The Results: Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen and Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King as Modern National Myths -- CONCLUSION: Arthur, Siegfried and the Germanic - A Qualification of the Difference between the



German and the Western Tradition -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back matter