Title Early Germanic literature and culture / edited by Brian Murdoch and Malcolm Read

Published Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Camden House history of German literature ; v. 1 Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture Camden House history of German literature ; v. 1. Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture Contents The concept of Germanic antiquity / Heinrich Beck -- Origo gentis: The literature of German Origins / Herwig Wolfram -- Germania Romana / Adrian Murdoch -- Germanic religion and the conversion to Christianity / Rudolf Simek -- Orality / R. Graeme Dunphy -- Runic / Klaus Düwel -- Gothic / Brian Murdoch -- Old Norse-Icelandic literature / Theodor Andersson -- Old English / Fred C. Robinson -- Old High German and continental Old Low German / Brian Murdoch -- The Old Saxon Heliand / G. Ronald Murphy Summary A collection of fresh essays examining the wide scope and significance of early Germanic culture and literature. The first volume of this set views the development of writing in German with respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a range of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, and philology in addition toliterary history. The first part considers the whole concept of Germanic antiquity and the way in which it has been approached, examines classical writings about Germanic origins and the earliest Germanic tribes, and looks at thetwo great influences on the early Germanic world: the confrontation with the Roman Empire and the displacement of Germanic religion by Christianity. A chapter on orality -- the earliest stage of all literature -- provides a bridgeto the earliest Germanic writings. The second part of the book is devoted to written Germanic -- rather than German -- materials, with a series of chapters looking first at the Runic inscriptions, then at Gothic, the first Germanic language to find its way onto parchment (in Ulfilas's Bible translation). The topic turns finally to what we now understand as literature, with general surveys of the three great areas of early Germanic literature: Old Norse, Old English, and Old High and Low German. A final chapter is devoted to the Old Saxon Heliand. Contributors: T. M. Andersson, Heinrich Beck, Graeme Dunphy, Klaus D©ơwel, G. Ronald Murphy, Adrian Murdoch, Brian Murdoch, Rudolf Simek, Herwig Wolfram. Brian Murdoch and Malcolm Read both teach in the German Department of the University of Stirling in Scotland Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Germanic literature -- History and criticism Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Civilization, Germanic. Germanic peoples. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Civilization, Germanic Germanic literature Germanic peoples Literature, Medieval Literatur Germanische Altertumskunde Sprache Kultur Germaanse talen. Germanen. Altgermanische Sprachen. Germanische Sprachen. Germanen. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Murdoch, Brian, 1944- editor. Read, Malcolm K. (Malcolm Kevin), 1945- editor. LC no. 2004000336 ISBN 9781571136374 1571136371 9781571131997 157113199X 1281770582 9781281770585 9786611770587 6611770585

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