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Ulrich von Liechtenstein
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 238.00Ulrich von Liechtenstein is the composer and author of numerous minne songs, writings on the theory of courtly love and a fictitious autobiography (as a servant of women). He is best known for his Frauendienst [?Ladies? Service?]. The compendium on Ulrich von Liechtenstein documents our present-day knowledge of the life, times and work of this interesting... more...
Die ?historische? Dietrichepik
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00The so-called ?historical? Dietrich epics, the thirteenth-century Middle High German heroic epics dealing with Dietrich von Bern (Verona), the corresponding saga of the Ostrogoth king Theoderic the Great, tells of Dietrich?s warring conflicts with his uncle Ermanaric to gain the rule of Northern Italy. The monograph elucidates the text group (the flight... more...
Körper, Gehirne, Gene
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 168.00German poetry of the 1990s is characterized by an intenseexamination of its relationshipwith the sciences. This book focuses on the works of the authors Durs Grünbein and Ulrike Draesner, two of the most important contemporary German poets, who increasingly take up scientific questions and motifs in their poems and essayistic texts on the nature and... more...
Wiederholung und Variation als poetisches Prinzip
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00The high aesthetic appeal of Gottfried of Strasbourg?s Tristan is due to the diverse relationships of repetition and variation with which this medieval romance is organized on various levels and which create a unique sense of poetic beauty and density. The monograph shows how the impulses of perception, assessment and understanding emanating from these... more...
Der 'Wigalois' Wirnts von Grafenberg
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 322.00This is the first introduction in German to the Wigalois by Wirnt von Grafenberg, written around 1200. The introduction is written for the general reader, with a target readership both of students of medieval German literature and of a wider audience of those seeking an initial approach to the text. Each section of the romance is summarized exactly,... more...
Lanzelet
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 420.00Lanzelet is an enigmatic piece of Arthurian literature. Composed soon after 1194, it is the second German Arthurian romance. It was based on a French model, now lost, which could have been part of an "old" hardly accessible Arthurian tradition, so that Lanzelet is a key text in the early history of Arthurian romance. In addition, however, its fascinating... more...
Das poetische Werk
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 350.00This new complete translation of the over 130 songs and poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca. 1377?1445) stays close to the original text and is philologically oriented. It replaces the previous publication in 1989 by the same editor which has been out of print for many years. All of the many bibliographical references have been updated for the new... more...
Parzival
Penguin Books Ltd 1980; Not AvailableComposed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach?s Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes... more...
Figuren des Messianischen in Schriften deutsch-jüdischer Intellektueller 1900-1933
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 140.00This study investigates the function of the recourse to the messianic tradition of Judaism among German-Jewish intellectuals between 1900 and 1933 (Benjamin, Bloch, Broch, Buber, Landauer, Rosenzweig, Scholem). Messianic figures of thought play an important role in the Jewish discourse of identity. Moreover, they are used productively in the creation... more...
Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's 'Ring'
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1977; US$ 158.00









