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Autore |
Oergel Maike <1964-> |
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Titolo |
The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen : national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature / / Maike Oergel |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, 1998 |
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[Reprint 2010] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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