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The Nibelungenlied - A Literary Analysis (Paperback)
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The Nibelungenlied - A Literary Analysis (Paperback)
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In the last fifty or so years there has been a gradual shift of
attention in scholarship on the Nibelungenlied from reconstruction
of the texts, and tracings of the poem's multiple and complex
antecedents, to interpretation. In spite of this trend, there is
still a pressing need for a critical analysis of the Nibelungenlied
as a whole that draws together its various literary qualities and
examines in detail the epic's unity, depth, and meaning. Professor
Bekker's study provides this kind of analysis. It takes a fresh
approach, viewing the poem as a work of literary merit worthy to be
read for its own sake. It traces the new designs which the poet
brings to the Nibelungen tradition and provides detailed
examinations of the main aspects of technique and structure in the
epic. The approach is based on close consultation of the text, with
little digression, in an attempt to guide the reader to an
understanding and appreciation of the poem as the author intended
it to be read. Professor Bekker points out that the poet of the
Nibelungenlied does not aim at psychological character delineation
and deliberately refrains from seeking to establish the various
prominent figures in the epic as individuals in the modern sense of
the term. Instead, they emerge as representative figures whose
interrelationships, though interesting, are less important for the
unity and meaning of the epic than are their common relationships
to the world in which they exist. The question of personal guilt or
innocence becomes irrelevant, and Professor Bekker sees the work
ultimately as poetic pageant of a noble way of life and its
destruction. Symbolism, imagery, parallelism, symmetry, and other
structural devices all contribute to the design which expresses the
nature of this noble life, and Professor Bekker's book is a
valuable guide to the complex architecture of this
thirteenth-century masterpiece.
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