The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen : national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature

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The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen : national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature

Maike Oergel

(European cultures : studies in literature and the arts, v. 10)

Walter de Gruyter, 1998

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Bibliography: p. [300]-317

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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

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