Arminius or the Rise of a National Symbol in Literature
From Hutten to Grabbe
Author(s)
Kuehnemund, Richard
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
German Studies; LiteraturePublisher
The University of North Carolina PressPublication date and place
Chapel Hill, 1953Series
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures,Classification
Literature: history and criticism