Maike Oergel

The Return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen

National Myth in Nineteenth-Century English and German Literature

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Produktdetails

• European Cultures 10
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9783110150841
• ISBN-10: 3110150840
• Artikelnr.: 09305834

Inhaltsangabe

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Backmatter