The Return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen - National Myth in Nineteenth-Century English and German Literature

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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

Product details

• Authors: Maike Oergel
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9783110150841
• ISBN: 978-3-11-015084-1
• No. of pages: 333
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 29 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 700 g
• Series: European Cultures; European Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics