Abstract
While the experience of shipwreck can almost be called archetypal, and while poets throughout time have placed their protagonists in such dangerous and life-threatening situations, we do not know much about how late-medieval German writers reflected on it. This article examines the motif of shipwreck and personal disaster in a number of heretofore little considered works, especially the poems by Oswald von Wolkenstein, those by Michel Beheim, Heinrich von Neustadt's 'Apollonius', and Emperor Maximilian's 'Theuerdank'.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 212-228 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Oxford German Studies |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2014 |
Keywords
- 'Apollonius'
- Emperor Maximilian
- Heinrich von Neustadt
- Late medieval German literature
- Michel Beheim
- Oswald von Wolkenstein
- Shipwreck
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Literature and Literary Theory