This groundbreaking interpretation offers a new approach to the reading of medieval literature and revolutionizes the study of the Nibelungenlied itself-providing a richer understanding of the work's significance both in its era and for our own.
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Muller's argumentation is thorough and his endnotes and bibliography are expansive; Whobrey's translation flows. Choice 2008 It is an exceptional treat that Johns Hopkins University Press has translated from German into English one of the most important, ground-breaking books on medieval studies of the past decade... Mueller offers a new reading of one of the major canonical texts of German medieval literature but also pioneers an innovative approach to medieval texts in general. -- Bettina Bildhauer Times Literary Supplement 2008 Jan-Dirk Muller's ground-breaking and controversial study of the Nibelungenlied... is an important book for medieval studies, and it is greatly to be welcomed that it is now available in an American translation and thus accessible to a larger audience. -- Almut Suerbaum Modern Language Review 2009 This is literary scholarship of a very high order indeed, and Muller's methods of reading a text can, I believe, be very illuminating to scholars in other areas beyond Germanic languages and literatures. -- Shami Ghosh H-Net Reviews 2010
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One of the best contributions to medieval scholarship in the past two or three decades, this book is a brilliant example of what literary history, at its very best, is capable of being. Muller is one of the most intellectually productive living medievalists. The undogmatic complexity of his thinking is always surprising and inspiring; the profundity of his scholarship is simply beyond belief. This volume represents both a monumental work, a future classic, and a breakthrough intellectual achievement. -- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University
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| Introduction |
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Heroic Narration and Epic Composition |
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The Shrouding of Visibility |
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Disrupted Rules of Interaction |
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The Failure of the Courtly Alternative |
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Deconstructing the Nibelungian World |
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Jan-Dirk Muller is a professor at the Institute for German Philology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich. William T. Whobrey is a lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University and an assistant dean of Yale College.
