A Companion to the Nibelungenlied
A Companion to the Nibelungenlied (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) Winder McConnell (Editor)
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571131515
DDC: 831.21
Edition: Hardcover; 1998-09-01
Summary:
Few works of the middle ages can boast the `staying power' of the
'heroic' Nibelungenlied and few have generated more controversy both
among scholars and the educated public. The Nibelung theme has been
ubiquitous over the past 150 years in a wide spectrum of literary and
as well as non-literary endeavors. It was used by Friedrich Hebbel as
the basis for one of his best psychological dramas, by Wagner, along
with the Old Norse analogues, for Die Ring des Nibelungen, and by the
film maker Fritz Lang for his 1920s Expressionist masterpiece, Die
Nibelungen. Its heroes provided suitable models for German troops who
marched against Napoleon, while by the end of World War II, the
Nibelung tradition had provided material for a speech by Göring, the
name for Germany's western line of defense, and significantly, the
cuffband designation of the last 'division' formed in the elite
Combat SS.This Companion to the Nibelungenlied draws on the expertise
of scholars from German, 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
reception both of the Nibelungenlied in the twentieth century 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.Winder McConnell is Professor of German at the University
of California, Davis.
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