Germanic

ISBN: 9781907975905
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 2
Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series of readings of Sebald’s major texts, from ‘After Nature’ to ‘Austerlitz’, Helen ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975714
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 37
Stendhal's most independent heroines are usually disliked or marginalized by critics. However, when gender-neutral criteria are applied, Mina de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini, Mathilde de La Mole, and Lamiel can all be shown to enact ext... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199238545
Published by : Oxford University Press
A new prose translation of the famous medieval German epic poem. The introduction concentrates principally on the reception of the the poem, and its importance to nineteenth century romanticism and nationalism, and later to the Nazis. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905981830
Published by : Maney - Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
In contrast to the vernacular literary traditions of France, Italy and England, comic tales in verse flourished in late medieval Germany, providing bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843840848
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A free Middle High German adaptation of Chretien de Troyes' Old French Arthurian romance, "Yvain", written c.1200 by a Swabian knight, Hartmann von Aue. German text with parallel English translation. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781571131737
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The emergence of a secular culture in the High Middle Ages saw positive value attached to the pleasures and loves of life in an imperfect and complex world within which we are still trying to assimilate ourselves today. In this, the third volum... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300125986
Published by : Yale University Press
A new verse translation of the famous High German epic, which inspired Wagner and Tolkein among others. The translation retains the formal structure of the original, and a brief introduction traces the genesis of the Nibelung legend. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781571132383
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The eminently versatile Hartmann von Aue, whose most productive period was during the last quarter of the 12th century, treated a greater variety of themes than any other medieval German poet. This becomes evident in these eleven commissioned e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781571134486
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The eminently versatile Hartmann von Aue, whose most productive period was during the last quarter of the 12th century, treated a greater variety of themes than any other medieval German poet. This becomes evident in these eleven commissioned e... .... Learn More