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Autore: | Oergel Maike <1964-> |
Titolo: | The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen : national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature / / Maike Oergel |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, 1998 |
Edizione: | Reprint 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/351 |
820.9351 | |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Classificazione: | HH 7680 |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen |
ISBN: | 3-11-081254-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825308403321 |
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