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Der Gebrauch Des Todesmotivs In Den Deutschen Poemata Von Paul Fleming, Paul Ancil Wolf

Dissertations and Theses

In the Deutsche Poemata the word Tod and its variant forms appear in over 130 different poems. The word may appear more than once in the same poem. Despite the frequency of this word, its use has not previously been researched in depth. Secondary sources fall into five basic categories:

l. the use of the word Tod is ignored completely;

2. its use may be isolated to borrowings from Roman Literature;

3. its use is Petrarchan;

4. if comprehensible at all, it is an expression of Fleming's Christian philosophy of nature;

5. Fleming's use of the word is typical for …