03697nam 2200817 a 450 991078562870332120230421054153.03-11-081254-110.1515/9783110812541(CKB)2670000000235127(EBL)1094242(OCoLC)823387316(SSID)ssj0000560171(PQKBManifestationID)11338061(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000560171(PQKBWorkID)10569237(PQKB)10813705(MiAaPQ)EBC1094242(DE-B1597)41326(OCoLC)979634544(DE-B1597)9783110812541(Au-PeEL)EBL1094242(CaPaEBR)ebr10588370(CaONFJC)MIL558832(EXLCZ)99267000000023512719971124d1998 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen[electronic resource] national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature /Maike OergelReprint 2010Berlin Walter de Gruyter19981 online resource (336 p.)European Cultures ;10Description based upon print version of record.3-11-015084-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 matterEuropean CulturesEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismArthurian romancesAdaptationsHistory and criticismGerman literature19th centuryHistory and criticismComparative literatureEnglish and GermanComparative literatureGerman and EnglishMythology, Germanic, in literatureMedievalismHistory19th centuryMiddle Ages in literatureNibelungen in literatureBritons in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Arthurian romancesAdaptationsHistory and criticism.German literatureHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureEnglish and German.Comparative literatureGerman and English.Mythology, Germanic, in literature.MedievalismHistoryMiddle Ages in literature.Nibelungen in literature.Britons in literature.820.9/351HH 7680rvkOergel Maike1964-1499412MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785628703321The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen3731519UNINA