The Nibelungenlied Today Its Substance, Essence, and Significance
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 vi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore, Md.
Project Muse, Project MUSE
2020, 202000002020
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| Series: | UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Item Description: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Physical Description: | 1 EPUB unpaged. |
| ISBN: | 1469658038 9780807880340 9781469658032 0807880345 |