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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Nibelungenlied"”.
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Occidental regionalism in the Nibelungenlied: medieval paradigms of foreignness
… explores the issue of foreignness in the Nibelungenlied, raising questions about the nature, and crossing, of intra-Christian borders within the text that separate customs, practices, and worldviews. It analyzes cultural alterity and its attendant outcomes in the first half of the …
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Weiblichkeit im Kontext von potestas und violentia : Untersuchungen zum Nibelungenlied
… Gewalt für die Konstruktion von Weiblichkeit im Nibelungenlied; es handelt sich hierbei um einen der prominentesten Erzähltexte der mittelalterlichen Literaturgeschichte, der um 1200 vermutlich von einem Kleriker am Passauer Bischofshof verschriftlicht wurde. Die These, welche die vorliegende …
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Multiple Allegiances, Conflicting Attributions of Honor, and the Resulting Moral Dilemmas In the Nibelungenlied
<p>The Nibelungenlied has offered German Studies a unique example of medieval literature that is highly valuable for teaching Middle High German as well as German literary history. The Nibelungenlied has many interesting literary qualities that over the centuries have generated an abundance of …
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Slaying Hybridity: The “Uncreated” Monstrous Doubles in the The Saga of the Volsungs, Nibelungenlied, and Kudrun
… two Middle High German texts,<em> </em>the <em>Nibelungenlied</em> and <em>Kudrun.</em> All three exhibit a similar uneasiness about gender performance. In these epics, fears about gender fluidity are founded on the slaying of hybrid mythological creatures (dragons and griffons) and are …
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The Ambiguity of otherness in adaptations of the Nibelungen myth: "Das Nibelungenlied" and Fritz Lang's "Die Nibelungen".
… German identity, be it in the medieval epic, the Nibelungenlied, or Fritz Lang's 1924 film, Die Nibelungen, is that this model of identification is flawed – flawed because it consists of systematic binary divisions positing self-other dichotomies. What becomes evident is that in the adaptations of …
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‘Sîn liet erklang im schône…’: A Reassessment of the Role of the Fiddle and Harp in the Performance of Minnesang (c. 1170–c. 1340)
… 5). In chapter 1, the famous passage in the Nibelungenlied in which Volker sings with his fiddle, and which is generally assumed to represent a performance of minnesang, forms a focused case study. Chapter 2 then conducts a comprehensive examination of remaining Middle High German written …
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La via delle saghe dalla Mongolia del medioevo all´Italia. Studio comparativo tra letterature islandesi, mongola e italiana del XIII secolo
… fyrstu texta tilrauna germanskrar tungu, Nibelungenlied og Hildibrandslied. Sama sögugrunn finnum við í íslensku fornritunum, einkum í Eddu eldri eða Ljóða Eddu þar sem flestar sögupersónana koma fyrir úr fyrrgreindum ljóðum. Niflunga hittum við fyrir í Völsungasögu Eddu eldri, Hildibrand …
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die sah man weinen. The Representation of Emotion and Dispute in Middle High German Heroic Epic
This thesis approaches the depiction of conflict and emotion in Middle High German heroic epic from an anthropological perspective, thereby establishing the norms and practices that obtain within the fictive societies the texts present. I argue that these epic narratives problematize the anxieties …