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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0300125984
It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.
Author : Winder McConnell
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131515
This Companion to the Nibelungenlied draws on the expertise of scholars from Germany, Britain, and the United States to offer the reader fresh perspectives on a wide variety of topics regarding the epic: the latest theories regarding manuscript tradition, authorship, conflict, combat, and politics, the Otherworld and its inhabitants, eroticism (in both the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring), the twentieth-century reception both of the Nibelungenlied and of its most intriguing protagonist, Kriemhild, key concepts used by the poet, the heroic, feudal, and courtly elements in the work, and an analysis of archetypal elements from the perspective of Jungian psychology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141920474
Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of the Netherlands, wins the hand of the beautiful princess Kriemhild of Burgundy, by aiding her brother Gunther in his struggle to seduce a powerful Icelandic Queen. But the two women quarrel, and Siegfried is ultimately destroyed by those he trusts the most. Comparable in scope to the Iliad, this skilfully crafted work combines the fragments of half-forgotten myths to create one of the greatest epic poems - the principal version of the heroic legends used by Richard Wagner, in The Ring.
Author : Nibelungen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590720865
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780804770378
This book aims to make available the necessary background for an informed reading of the Nibelungenlied, the twelfth-century epic perhaps best known to non-Germans from Wagner's music dramas. Two traditions of scholarly thought exist about the Nibelungenlied. The first sees the poem as a development out of German heroic legend; the second focuses on the work's location in the contemporary literary context at the end of the twelfth century. The first and older school deals with the evolution of the story over time and the question of how short heroic poems attained epic compass in the later Nibelungenlied. The second seeks to interpret the poem in terms of the new emergence of Arthurian romance around 1200. The author attempts to bridge the gap between the two contending schools, suggesting that neither approach precludes the other. Although the Nibelungenlied poet drew the story itself from earlier heroic poems, the author makes clear that the poet absorbed impulses from other types of literature as well. The book is in three parts. Part I discusses literary antecedents, tracing the development of German heroic poetry from the Migration Age on, then describing narrative practice in the twelfth century, in historical and legendary epic on the one hand and romance on the other. Part II analyzes the Nibelungenlied in its immediate literary context, addressing possible sources and narrative innovations. The author relates the story of the poem to the immediate antecedent versions of the legend that are now preserved only in the Norse Thidrek's Saga, surveys recent general interpretations, and suggests a literary-historical analysis that can plot the Nibelungenlied more accurately on the literary map of the twelfth century. Part III comprises previously untranslated texts and summaries of source materials bearing on the Nibelungenlied.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781624666773
Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge—yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character—the Nibelungenlied is the greatest and most unique epic in Middle High German. The Klage, its consistent companion text in the manuscript tradition, continues the story, detailing the devastating aftermath of the Burgundians' bloody slaughter. William Whobrey's new volume offers both—together for the first time in English—in a prose version informed by recent scholarship that brilliantly conveys to modern readers not only the sense but also the tenor of the originals.
Author : Werner A. Mueller
Publisher : University of North Carolina S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807880345
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.
Author : Gustav Gruener
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Nibelungenlied
ISBN : UOM:39015030148202
Author : Francis G. Gentry
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nibelungen
ISBN : 9780815317852
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David J. Levin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400866694
This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's 1920s film Die Nibelungen creatively exploit contrasts between good and bad aesthetics to address the question of what is German and what is not. He shows that each work associates a villainous character, portrayed as non-Germanic and Jewish, with the sometimes dramatically awkward act of narration. For both Wagner and Lang, narration--or, in cinematic terms, visual presentation--possesses a typically Jewish potential for manipulation and control. Consistent with this view, Levin shows, the Germanic hero Siegfried is killed in each work by virtue of his unwitting adoption of a narrative role. Levin begins with an explanation of the book's theoretical foundations and then applies these theories to close readings of, in turn, Wagner's cycle and Lang's film. He concludes by tracing how Germans have dealt with the Nibelungen myths in the wake of the Second World War, paying special attention to Michael Verhoeven's 1989 film The Nasty Girl. His fresh and interdisciplinary approach sheds new light not only on Wagner's Ring and Lang's Die Nibelungen, but also on the ways in which aesthetics can be put to the service of aggression and hatred. The book is an important contribution to scholarship in film and music and also to the broader study of German culture and national identity.
Author : Francis G. Gentry,James K. Walter
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002690803
This is volume 1 in The German Library in 100 Volumes. It includes a comprehensive foreword to the entire series by the general editor Volkmar Sanders. It also features the following works: The Older Lay of Hildebrand, The Nibelungenlied, The Younger Lay of Hildebrand, The Battle of Ravenna, Biterolf and Dietleib, and The Rose Garden (Version A). In many ways, German, as well as all modern Western literature, is grounded in the epic (or heroic) poetry of this seminal volume.
Author : Daniel Bussier Shumway
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9356784515
The Nibelungenlied, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
Author : Jan-Dirk Müller
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 080188702X
This groundbreaking interpretation offers a new approach to the reading of medieval literature and revolutionizes the study of the Nibelungenlied itself--providing a richer understanding of the work's significance both in its era and for our own.
Author : Neil Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nibelungenlied
ISBN : UCAL:B4132740
Reading the Nibelungenlied is an introduction to a German example of the 'heroic' genre which provides an interpretative commentary aimed at students and readers with an interest in both medieval and modern receptions of the Nibelungen legends.
Author : George Henry Needler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0368882276
The Nibelungenlied ("The Song of the Nibelungs") is an epic poem originally written in in Middle High German around the year 1180. It tells the story of the dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife Kriemhild's revenge. Along with the Völsunga saga, the Nibelungenlied served as source material for Richard Wagner's famous four music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Ring of the Nibelung"), although the storyline in the Nibelungenlied is far more extensive than in Wagner's work. Based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs which include ancient oral traditions (including the Norse sagas), the Nibelungenlied first appeared from the area of the Danube between Passau and Vienna, from where the oldest manuscripts originate. The epic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the story of Siegfried and Kriemhild, the wooing of Brünhild and the death of Siegfried at the hands of Hagen, and Hagen's hiding of the Nibelung treasure in the Rhine (Chapters 1-19). The second part deals with Kriemhild's marriage to Etzel (Atilla the Hun), her plans for revenge, the journey of the Burgundians to the court of Etzel, and their last stand in Etzel's hall (Chapters 20-39). The original was written as a poem in 2,400 stanzas, divided up into 39 Aventiuren ("adventures"). This edition has been translated into poem format with the exact metre of the German original. It includes a complete background introductory essay by the translator, in which much fascinating detail of the epic is revealed. About the translator: Major George Henry Needler, PhD, (1866-1962) was born in Millbrook, Canada, and received his BA from University College in 1886 and a PhD from Leipzig. In 1891, he joined the teaching staff of the German Department of University College at the University of Toronto. He was appointed department head in 1914, and held the title until his retirement in 1936.
