Item
Der Stricker: Erzählungen, Fablen, Reden: Mittelhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch
- Title
- Der Stricker: Erzählungen, Fablen, Reden: Mittelhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch
- en_US Universal-Bibliothek #8797
- Description
- Language note: Bilingual: Mittelhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch
- Herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert von Otfrid Ehrismann
- Creator
- en_US Ehrismann, Otfrid See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-04-20T15:51:40Z
- en_US 2014-07
- 1992
- Date Available
- 2016-04-20T15:51:40Z
- Date Issued
- 1992
- Abstract
- en_US What I have found here is consistent with the 1999 Mellen Press edition of Der Stricker's work. Here eleven fables are presented bilingually, along with two "Tierparabeln." Those two include "The Monkey Mother" (74), which is explained allegorically by Der Stricker to indicate our earthly goods (the beloved child) and our sins (the unloved child). This application does not convince me. The fables, whose originals use rhyming couplets, again involve strong contrasts between good and evil, the wise and the foolish. "Der Kater als Freier" (38) involves the motif of seeking someone worthy. Here the cat wants a wife worthy of his greatness, and he gets help from the fox, who moves through offers of the daughter of the sun, the cloud, the wind, the house of stone, the mouse, and finally the cat. The story ends up being a put-down of the arrogant cat, who repents and sees himself now as he is. "Die Katze" (48) seems to indicate that the cat fouls whatever she does not want; so it is with unchaste men. In "Der Wolf und der Biber" (58), a wolf catches a beaver. The beaver promises to help the wolf catch a badger. The badger gets the beaver free. "Der Vogel und der Sperber" (68) features a bird who sings so forgetfully that he becomes the victim of a sparrowhawk. Even a cheap paperback from Reclam is a well made book!
- Identifier
- en_US 10713 (Access ID)
- Language
- gmh
- Publisher
- en_US Philipp Reclam jum. GmBH
- en_US Stuttgart
- Subject
- en_US PT1653.A4E57 1992 See all items with this value
- Der Stricker See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection