Publications
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The Nibelungenlied Today
(1962)
This thorough study of the moral values of the "Nibelungen" and of their paradoxical behavior posits the work as an indictment of a society that results time and again in collective human tragedy. Told with tragic insight, ...
The Maiden of Orleans
(1962)
First published as an American contribution to the 1959 bicentennial celebration of Friedrich Schiller's birth, Krumpelmann's translation of the poet's Joan of Arc drama retains the iambic pentameter of the original. This ...
King Rother
(1962)
Originally published in 1962, Robert Lichtenstein's translation of "King Rother" made the medieval epic available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. His translation in rhymed couplets seeks to convey the ...
Ballad of the Buried Life
(1962)
A news item concerning six German soldiers trapped for years in the army food storage bunker provided Rudolf Hagelstange with a plot and an effective symbol to express the tensions, emotions, and paradoxes of modern man's ...
Young Nietzsche and the Wagnerian Experience
(1963)
Using previously unpublished and neglected sources, this 1963 study of the critical decade in the philosopher's development that culminated in "The Birth of Tragedy" in 1871 fully exploited for the first time the extensive ...