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



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Autore: Oergel Maike <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen [[electronic resource] ] : national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature / / Maike Oergel Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin, : Walter de Gruyter, 1998
Edizione: Reprint 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/351
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-081254-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462725603321
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Serie: European Cultures