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The Nibelungenlied Today: Its Substance, Essence, and Significance

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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(s): Werner A. Mueller
Series: University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 34
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Year: 1962

Language: English
Pages: 112
City: Chapel Hill

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The Nibelungenlied Today
Title
Copyright
Dedication
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. THE SUBSTANCE
A. Affirmation
B. Moral Values
1. Strength
2. Honor
3. Loyalty
4. Gentility
Family Relationship
Social Relationship
Honesty
God, Superstition, Fate
Love and Hate
Conclusion
II. THE ESSENCE
III. THE SIGNIFICANCE
NOTES