Recent Textbooks Literary Studies
Störmer-Caysa, Uta
Grundstrukturen mittelalterlicher Erzählungen
Raum und Zeit im höfischen Roman
Working on the basis of modern narratological theories, this book introduces the reader to the poetics of epic texts from the Middle Ages and thus provides a foundation for the independent analysis of pre-modern narrative structures. [more ...]
Beowulf
Eine Textauswahl mit Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar
Hrsg. v. Standop, Ewald
The Old English heroic epic Beowulf, which is comprised of 3182 alliterated lines, was written in the 8th century. Beowulf is the oldest and only completely preserved Old Germanic epic. The new selected edition is a complete revision of the relevant edition by Martin Lehnert. [more ...]