The Ambiguity of otherness in adaptations of the Nibelungen myth: "Das Nibelungenlied" and Fritz Lang's "Die Nibelungen".
| dc.contributor.author | Bickert, Neale G. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Pnevmonidou, Elena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-02T15:20:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-05-02T15:20:27Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2012 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-05-02 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Germanic and Russian Studies | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies | |
| dc.degree.department | School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Over eight hundred years ago anonymous poets set the orally transmitted Nibelungen myth to parchment. This action started a trend of adapting the myth for contemporary audiences, a trend that has lasted since the High Middle Ages. Since then, the Nibelungen myth has become a sustaining element of the self-mythologization of German national identity. The problem, however, with adapting the Nibelungen myth for the purpose of creating a German identity, be it in the medieval epic, the Nibelungenlied, or Fritz Lang's 1924 film, Die Nibelungen, is that this model of identification is flawed – flawed because it consists of systematic binary divisions positing self-other dichotomies. What becomes evident is that in the adaptations of Nibelungen myth, the representations of alterity are contradictory and ambiguous, provoking the question: why is the Nibelungen myth an effective source from which one can project a national identity? | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3970 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights.temp | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nibelungenlied | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fritz Lang | en_US |
| dc.subject | Orientalism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gender | en_US |
| dc.subject | Otherness | en_US |
| dc.subject | Alterity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Middle Ages | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nationalism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nibelungen | en_US |
| dc.subject | Weimar | en_US |
| dc.subject | höfisch | en_US |
| dc.subject | myth | en_US |
| dc.subject | national identity | en_US |
| dc.subject | ambiguity | en_US |
| dc.title | The Ambiguity of otherness in adaptations of the Nibelungen myth: "Das Nibelungenlied" and Fritz Lang's "Die Nibelungen". | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |