King Rother and His Bride: Quest and Counter-Quests
(Part of the Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Series)
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King Rother, a twelfth-century bridal-quest epic, occupies an important place in the history of German literature. The earliest surviving and structurally most sophisticated of the so-called minstrel epics, verse narratives once assumed to have been recited by itinerant minstrels before a courtly audience, it has its roots in German folklore and documents the transition from orality to the culture of the book. The text belongs to the subgenre of the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1571134360
ISBN13:9781571134363
Release Date:May 2010
Publisher:Camden House (NY)
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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