This article explores the narrative functions and literary effects of references to beards in medieval German heroic epic, beards being perhaps the most perfect of metonyms for heroic masculinity. In doing so it seeks to shed light on the ways in which poets of heroic epic address the issue of the appearance or rather the physiognomy of their (many) male characters. The 'Nibelungenlied' represents something of a literary archetype which remains largely unparalleled in the subsequent tradition of German epic poetry; later texts deal with heroes and their beards quite differently. / Der Beitrag setzt sich mit Erzählfunktionen und literarischen Effekten auseinander, die durch Hinweise auf Bärte in der mhd. Heldenepik zustande kommen, wobei de...
By some of the criteria that might be applied, the Nibelungenlied, written in the first decade of th...
Irene Nierhaus The Hero as a (Male) Chronicle. PrefaceThis issue focuses on twentieth-century and co...
This dissertation explores various characteristics that define the monstrous and the heroic — both o...
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twe...
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twe...
The discovery of the medieval heroic epic “Das Nibelungenlied”in the XIX century Germany coincided w...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1998This study analyzes the different models of physicali...
Since its rediscovery by the Romantics, the Nibelungenlied has evolved not only into the German na...
This thesis approaches the depiction of conflict and emotion in Middle High German heroic epic from ...
Germanic liberation myths play an important role in the development of a national consciousness in b...
This dissertation examines the nature of wisdom in medieval Germanic epics, and how this wisdom char...
It may be accepted as a premise that medieval epics present the lives of legendary heroes against th...
In this article, we suggest a new reading of the Fincken Ritter, a pamphlet published anonymously in...
This dissertation presents the results of a comparative study of concepts of honour and loyalty in m...
The article deals with the final part of the German epic Nibelungenlied to learn the real significan...
By some of the criteria that might be applied, the Nibelungenlied, written in the first decade of th...
Irene Nierhaus The Hero as a (Male) Chronicle. PrefaceThis issue focuses on twentieth-century and co...
This dissertation explores various characteristics that define the monstrous and the heroic — both o...
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twe...
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twe...
The discovery of the medieval heroic epic “Das Nibelungenlied”in the XIX century Germany coincided w...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1998This study analyzes the different models of physicali...
Since its rediscovery by the Romantics, the Nibelungenlied has evolved not only into the German na...
This thesis approaches the depiction of conflict and emotion in Middle High German heroic epic from ...
Germanic liberation myths play an important role in the development of a national consciousness in b...
This dissertation examines the nature of wisdom in medieval Germanic epics, and how this wisdom char...
It may be accepted as a premise that medieval epics present the lives of legendary heroes against th...
In this article, we suggest a new reading of the Fincken Ritter, a pamphlet published anonymously in...
This dissertation presents the results of a comparative study of concepts of honour and loyalty in m...
The article deals with the final part of the German epic Nibelungenlied to learn the real significan...
By some of the criteria that might be applied, the Nibelungenlied, written in the first decade of th...
Irene Nierhaus The Hero as a (Male) Chronicle. PrefaceThis issue focuses on twentieth-century and co...
This dissertation explores various characteristics that define the monstrous and the heroic — both o...