The Kaiserchronik by Alastair Matthews
This book presents a narratological analysis of the Kaiserchronik, or chronicle of the emperors. The Kaiserchronik provides an account of the Roman and Holy Roman emperors from the foundation of Rome to the eve of the Second Crusade and was the first verse chronicle to have been written in any European vernacular language.
Matthews's book, informed by a variety of modern narrative theorists' work, should appeal to a range of scholar? * including non-Germanist?and so should benefit from Myers's timely translation...In short, this book will appeal to a range of scholars; it is a scholarly contribution that will help to re-establish the Kaiserchronik as a well-known text.Journal of English and Germanic Philology *
Alastair Matthews specializes in theoretical approaches to medieval German narrative literature. He was awarded his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2009 and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, where he examined concepts of character and the self in Middle High German texts. He is currently a Theodor Heuss Research Fellow at the University of Bonn, where he is working on a study of Lohengrin, and is also an active translator.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199656998 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199656991 |
| Title | The Kaiserchronik |
| Author | Alastair Matthews |
| Series | Oxford Modern Languages And Literature Monographs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2012-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
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