Screen LibraryNarration and hero : recounting the deeds of heroes in literature and art of the early medieval period /
The volume provides an overview of the origins of early medieval aristocratic literature. Although there are regional, linguistic and formal differences, one can observe a number of similarities. Oral literature disseminates a range of themes that are shared by narratives in most parts of the contin...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Reallexikon der germanischen altertumskunde - erg nzungsb nde;
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
The volume provides an overview of the origins of early medieval aristocratic literature. Although there are regional, linguistic and formal differences, one can observe a number of similarities. Oral literature disseminates a range of themes that are shared by narratives in most parts of the continent. The authors address these similarities in Roman, Nordic, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic literature and use different methodologies to explain them. |
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1 online resource (viii, 449 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | div. Abb. |
| ISBN: | 9783110338157 |
| Index Number: | PT179 |
| CLC: | I516.063 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction/Einleitung -- Conversational Skills for Heroes / Redeeming Beowulf. The Heroic Idiom as Marker of Quality in Old English Poetry / The Fury of the Northmen and the Poetics of Violence / Fate and God, Gallows and Cross, Sword and Spear. The Variation of Counterconcepts as Part of the Poetic Diction in the Old Saxon Heliand / Negotiating Heroism and Humour in the Cattle-Raid of Cooley (T in B Cuailnge) / Der monstr se Heros oder Wenn der ungeheure Held zum Ungeheuer wird. Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte des Figuren-Typus Drachenk mpfer in der altnordischen und altenglischen Literatur / Held und Narrativ. Zur narrativen Funktion des Heros in der mittelalterlichen Literatur / Deconstructing Snorri. Narrative Structure and Heroism in Eyrbyggja saga / Zwischen Hildebrand und Hadubrand. Held und Zeit im Hildebrandslied / Deconstructing the Hero in Early Medieval Heroic Poetry / Giving and Receiving. The Integrity of the Hero in the Earliest Chansons de geste / Helden und Schwerter. Durchschlagkraft und agency in heldenepischem Zusammenhang / Die Erz hlung des Helden in narrativen Passagen der Historia Langobardorum des Paulus Diaconus / Die mythische Vorgeschichte des Nibelungenhorts / Christus und andere Helden. Bemerkungen zu einigen altenglischen Gedichten / Christus als Lichtbringer und Held. Polarit t im Heliand und in zeitgen ssischen Bildzeugnissen / Fremde Helden? Narrative Transcodierung und Konnexion des Nibelungenlieds im mittelniederl ndischen Nevelingenlied / Svipdagsm l: Gender, Genre, and Reconstruction / Index. |