TY - GEN AU - Mueller,Werner A. TI - The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance SN - 9781469658032_Mueller PY - 1962/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Literature: history & criticism KW - bicssc KW - German Studies KW - Literature N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39785/1/9781469658032_WEB.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33753 ER -