Arminius or the Rise of a National Symbol in Literature : From Hutten to Grabbe / / Richard Kuehnemund.

This volume provides an evaluation of the ideological significance of the Arminius trope in patriotic German literature. Beginning with the German Humanists and ranging through the works of Hutten, Lohenstein, J. E. Schlegel, Klopstock, Kleist, Grabbe and others. Kuehnemund tracks how Arminius has b...

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged.)
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Summary:This volume provides an evaluation of the ideological significance of the Arminius trope in patriotic German literature. Beginning with the German Humanists and ranging through the works of Hutten, Lohenstein, J. E. Schlegel, Klopstock, Kleist, Grabbe and others. Kuehnemund tracks how Arminius has been deployed as a symbol of the German nation by major intellectual movements and at key points in German history leading up to the Second World War.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1469657740
Access:Open access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Richard Kuehnemund.