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Würde im Widerspruch
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 133.00Jewish literature blossomed in Germany during the years 1933 to 1938. It was tolerated by the National Socialists and served German Jews as a means of self-ascertion and frequently also provided guidelines. With reference to narrative literature, the study provides both a general outline and an analysis of individual works, thus delineating more clearly... more...
Alpharts Tod. Dietrich und Wenezlan
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 98.00This is the third of the new Bremen editions of heroic epics related to Dietrich von Bern. The texts of ?Alpharts Tod? (late 13th century) and ?Dietrich und Wenezlan? (13th century) are given in a form that reflects the course of their transmission. Modern punctuation has been added. ?Alpharts Tod? centres on the killing of Dietrich's follower Alphart... more...
Narrativische Perspektiven in Wolframs »Willehalm«
De Gruyter 2000; US$ 133.00This study picks up current debates about perspective and meaning in Wolfram von Eschenbach's »Willehalm«. Adapting Mika Bal's model of narratology, it concentrates on two major complexes - characters and narrator - which it treats as fluid, intersecting entities. The former, uniquely for German narrative genres of the period, emerge as three-dimensional... more...
König Artus - Iwein - Der Löwe
De Gruyter 1979; US$ 133.00K Nig Artus - Iwein - Der L We: Die Bedeutung Des Gesprochenen Wortes in Hartmanns "Iwein". more...
Spielregeln für den Untergang
De Gruyter 1998; US$ 189.00Argues that the literary reception of the "Nibelungenlied" was problematic long before twentieth century. This book uncovers heterogeneous cultural context from which the poem emerged. It challenges scholarly readers to move beyond modern methods of criticism and analysis, and to look for other possibilities and methods of interpretation. more...
Lanzelet
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 517.00This edition of Ulrich von Zatzikhofen?s Lanzelet fulfils a long-felt need in German Medieval Studies.In addition to the Middle High German text, it provides a modern German translation and exact transcriptions of the manuscript. The edition is completed with a research report, a textual commentary, a complete research bibliography, and various indexes. more...
Empathie, Mitleid, Sympathie
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm is one of the most-discussed German poetic texts from the High Middle Ages. To date, researchers have been unable to agree how to read this text - as a plea for the ideology of the Crusades, for tolerance or even for humanity. The present study seeks new answers to these important questions by evaluating the text... more...
Der Ritterspiegel
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 210.00Johannes Rothe's Ritterspiegel [Mirror of Chivalry] with its 4108 verses is the most comprehensive medieval knightly primer in German. In all probability it was written for young nobles in the context of Rothe's work as school head in Eisenach from 1414. Apart from its significance for the history of literature as a didactic poem, the work provides... more...









