The Nibelungenlied Today Its Substance, Essence, and Significance / Wener A. Mueller.
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TextSeries: UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; number 34Publisher: Project Muse, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged.)ISBN: 9781469658032Subject(s): Nibelungenlied | Nibelungen in literature | Epic poetry, German -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification: PT1589 | .M8 1962Online resources: Full text available: Summary: This thorough study of the moral values of the Nibelungen and of their paradoxical behavior posits the work as an indictment of a society that results time and again in collective human tragedy. Told with tragic insight, yet sympathetically, the epic may well be described as the story of man, the victim of himself. Mueller analyzes the work in three chapters, focused on substance, essence and significance, in order to make the epic poem relevant to a modern audience.
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| PT1522.F4 B4 Friedrich von Hausen | PT1548J53 A25 1958 Death and the Plowman or, The Bohemian Plowman | PT1551.K6 A35 1962 King Rother | PT1589 .M8 1962 The Nibelungenlied Today | PT1653.A4 M6 1970 Liebe und Ehe | PT1658.T3 Z9 Tannhäuser | PT1679.W86 R525 1956 Wittenwiler's "Ring" and the Anonymous Scots Poem "Colkelbie Sow" |
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This thorough study of the moral values of the Nibelungen and of their paradoxical behavior posits the work as an indictment of a society that results time and again in collective human tragedy. Told with tragic insight, yet sympathetically, the epic may well be described as the story of man, the victim of himself. Mueller analyzes the work in three chapters, focused on substance, essence and significance, in order to make the epic poem relevant to a modern audience.
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