UID:
almafu_9958354597502883
Format:
1 online resource (333p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2010
ISBN:
9783110812541
Series Statement:
European Cultures ; 10
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Introduction: National Myth – Mythic or National --
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CHAPTER 1: The Investment of Literature with Mythic Significance --
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CHAPTER 2: The Investment of History with Mythic Significance --
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CHAPTER 3: The Search for the Legitimising Mythic Matter of the Moderns: From Homer’s Heroes to Gothic Knights and Back --
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CHAPTER 4: The National Dimension of the New Mythic Materials: “Volkspoesie”, Ballad Revival and the Germanic Nations’ Mission in History --
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CHAPTER 5: The Representative National Individual: The Emergence of Siegfried and King Arthur --
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CHAPTER 6: The Results: Richard Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen and Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King as Modern National Myths --
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CONCLUSION: Arthur, Siegfried and the Germanic – A Qualification of the Difference between the German and the Western Tradition --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Backmatter --
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-179473-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-015084-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9783110812541
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110812541
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110812541
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110812541