The Nibelungenlied Today: Its Substance, Essence, and Significance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807880340)

This thorough study of the moral values of the Nibelungen and of their paradoxical behavior posits the work as an indictment of a society that results time and again in collective human tragedy. Told with tragic insight, yet sympathetically, the epic may well be described as the story of man, the victim of himself. Mueller analyzes the work in three chapters, focused on substance, essence and significance, in order to make the epic poem relevant to a modern audience.

Author: Werner a. Mueller
ISBN-10: 0807880345
ISBN-13: 9780807880340
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d