The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance
Mueller, Werner A.
The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance - Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 1962 - 1 electronic resource (112 p.)
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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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English
9781469658032_Mueller
10.5149/9781469658032_Mueller doi
Literature: history & criticism
German Studies Literature
The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance - Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 1962 - 1 electronic resource (112 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
9781469658032_Mueller
10.5149/9781469658032_Mueller doi
Literature: history & criticism
German Studies Literature