The Beginnings of German Literature - Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Old High German

A study of the earliest traces of the love-lyric follows, poems that slipped through the net of censorship imposed by the Christian church. A final essay is concerned with the Ossian of the period, an ingenious forgery that was a cause celebre in the nineteenth century, the Old High German Lullaby.Cyril Edwards is a Lecturer in German at St. Peters College, Oxford, and an Honorary Research Fellow of University College London. He has published numerous articles on medieval German literature and co-edited a book on the medieval German lyric. He is currecntly preparing a new translation of Wolfram von Eschenbachs Parzival and Titurel.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Cyril Edwards, Cyril W. Edwards
• Verlag: Camden House
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2002
• Seiten: 216
• Abmessung: 6 mm x 9 mm x 15 mm
• Gewicht: 480 g
• Serie: Studies in German Literature,
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft