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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE German Studies Professor of German at By DAVID A. WELLS, The Queen's University of Belfast I. GENERAL C. P. Magill, German Literature, OUP, 190 pp., is conceived as the successor to J. G. Robertson's The Lit. of Germany, intended for the gen. reader or student beginner, and succeeds more than most such one-vol. surveys. M. is deliberately selective, con- centrating on the best works rather than attempting to cover everything, and his vivid but precise style sustains interest. .Nibelungenlied, Parzival, The med. section supplies introds to the Ackermann aus Bohmen. Here, as Tristan, Walther, and the throughout the vol., M. shows his mastery of the art of com- bining gen. observation with scholarly accuracy. K. Morvay and D. Grube, Bibl. der deutschen Predigt des Mittelalters. Very= fentlichte Predigten (MTU, 47), xxviii ± 363 pp., is an extremely valuable ref. work which will greatly facilitate research amid the jungle of vernacular sermon lit. There is a pref. by K. Ruh under whose direction the bibl. was compiled at Wurzburg, and the difficulty of assembling the material is convincingly put forward as a justification of the book. The major part of the bibl. is a chronological sequence of the data, from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0084-4152
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2222-4297
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10.1163/22224297-90001985
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German Studies Professor of German at By DAVID A. WELLS, The Queen's University of Belfast I. GENERAL C. P. Magill, German Literature, OUP, 190 pp., is conceived as the successor to J. G. Robertson's The Lit. of Germany, intended for the gen. reader or student beginner, and succeeds more than most such one-vol. surveys. M. is deliberately selective, con- centrating on the best works rather than attempting to cover everything, and his vivid but precise style sustains interest. .Nibelungenlied, Parzival, The med. section supplies introds to the Ackermann aus Bohmen. Here, as Tristan, Walther, and the throughout the vol., M. shows his mastery of the art of com- bining gen. observation with scholarly accuracy. K. Morvay and D. Grube, Bibl. der deutschen Predigt des Mittelalters. Very= fentlichte Predigten (MTU, 47), xxviii ± 363 pp., is an extremely valuable ref. work which will greatly facilitate research amid the jungle of vernacular sermon lit. There is a pref. by K. Ruh under whose direction the bibl. was compiled at Wurzburg, and the difficulty of assembling the material is convincingly put forward as a justification of the book. The major part of the bibl. is a chronological sequence of the data, from

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The Year’s Work in Modern Language StudiesBrill

Published: Mar 13, 1975

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