Gregorius
A Medieval Oedipus Legend
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Originally published in 1955, this rendering in rhyming couplets was the first English translation to appear of the medieval Oedipus legend of Gregorius, made known to readers by Thomas Mann in his novel "The Holy Sinner" (1951). The introduction situates Hartmann's poem in the pantheon of Gregorius legends by writers from Sophocles to Mann.
Keywords
Poetry; German Studies; LiteratureDOI
10.5149/9781469658674_AuePublisher
University of North Carolina PressPublisher website
https://uncpress.org/Publication date and place
Chapel Hill, 1955Grantor
Series
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 14Classification
Literature: history and criticism