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The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen : national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature / Maike Oergel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oergel, Maike, 1964-
- Series:
- European Cultures
- European Cultures ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Arthurian romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Comparative literature--English and German.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--German and English.
- Mythology, Germanic, in literature.
- Medievalism--History--19th century.
- Medievalism.
- Middle Ages in literature.
- Nibelungen in literature.
- Britons in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2010
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110812541
- 3110812541
- OCLC:
- 823387316
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