title: Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen
author:  David J. Levin 
description: "This is a smart and thoroughly absorbing book. Its focus is not on a single genre but on the uses that have been made of the Nibelung legend to help shape German national and cultural identity.... A subtly argued study of how the works under consideration 'render their politics in an aesthetic register.'"<b>---Herbert Lindenberger, <i>Quarterly Journal of the Modern Language Association</i></b><br /><br />"[David J. Levin] deftly executes his readings of Wagner and Lang, and the book's keen, unencumbered prose and practicable assessments ... perhaps a partial dividend of its author's work as Dramaturg at the Frankfurt Opera ... encourages the broad readership of this study."<b>---Kelly Barry, <i>Modern Language Notes</i></b><br /><br />"Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen engages in close textual readings in order to shed light on much larger cultural issues and fault lines. . . . This brief summary can barely do justice to the richness and originality of Levin's many brilliant interpretive moves."<b>---Lutz Koepnick, <i>Modernism/Modernity</i></b><br /><br />"This book will have a major impact not just on scholarship on Wagner and Lang, or even in the areas of music and film; I am confident that it will also produce a new reflection on the relationship between close readings of individual cultural objects and broader thinking on issues such as German national identity and self-understanding."<b>Michael W. Jennings, Princeton University</b>
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  **Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller**  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Briefwechsel zwischen Schiller und Goethe  
  
  
  (Vollständige Ausgabe: Band 1&2)
  
  
  
  
  
  # Korrespondenz in den Jahren 1794 bis 1805  
  
  
  (Literatur- und Kunstauffassung, gegenseitige  
  
  
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  © e-artnow, 2014
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN 978-80-268-0422-2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Editorische Notiz:** Dieses eBuch folgt dem Originaltext.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Inhaltsverzeichnis  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **[Erster Band](../Text/TOC_A.html)**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [**Zweiter Band**](../Text/TOC_B.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Erster Band
  
  
  
  
  
  [Inhalt  
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  **Inhalt**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [An Seine Majestät den König von Bayern.]