The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

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O'Donoghue, HeatherHrsg.Parker, EleanorHrsg.

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648 Seiten

Englisch

Cambridge University Presserschienen am29.02.2024

A landmark new history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a unique and celebrated body of medieval writing. Chapters by internationally recognized experts offer the latest in-depth analysis of every significant genre and group of texts in the corpus, including sagas and skaldic verse, romances and saints' lives, myths and histories, laws and learned literature. Together, they provide a scholarly, readable and accessible overview of the whole field. Innovatively organized by the chronology and geography of the texts' settings - which stretch from mythic history to medieval Iceland, from Vinland to Byzantium - they reveal the interconnectedness of diverse genres encompassing verse and prose, translations and original works, Christian and pre-Christian literature, fiction and non-fiction. This is the ideal volume for specialists, students and general readers who want a fresh and authoritative guide to the literature of medieval Iceland and Norway.mehr

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KlappentextA landmark new history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a unique and celebrated body of medieval writing. Chapters by internationally recognized experts offer the latest in-depth analysis of every significant genre and group of texts in the corpus, including sagas and skaldic verse, romances and saints' lives, myths and histories, laws and learned literature. Together, they provide a scholarly, readable and accessible overview of the whole field. Innovatively organized by the chronology and geography of the texts' settings - which stretch from mythic history to medieval Iceland, from Vinland to Byzantium - they reveal the interconnectedness of diverse genres encompassing verse and prose, translations and original works, Christian and pre-Christian literature, fiction and non-fiction. This is the ideal volume for specialists, students and general readers who want a fresh and authoritative guide to the literature of medieval Iceland and Norway.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-108-48681-1

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

FormatGenäht

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2024

Erscheinungsdatum29.02.2024

Seiten648 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 150 mm, Höhe 221 mm, Dicke 38 mm

Gewicht1111 g

Artikel-Nr.60576846

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 1. History: Iceland from the settlement to 1400 CE Haki Antonsson; 2. Manuscripts and textual culture Emily Lethbridge; 3. Poetic language, form and metre R. D. Fulk; 4. Theoretical approaches Torfi H. Tulinius; 5. Reception Verena Höfig; 6. Landscape and material culture Jane Harrison; Part II. The Distant Past: 7. Mythological poetry Judy Quinn; 8. Heroic poetry Carolyne Larrington; 9. Fornaldarsögur Annette Lassen; Part III. The Saga Age: 10. Íslendingasögur Margaret Clunies Ross; 11. Poets' sagas Alison Finlay; 12. Prosimetrum in the Íslendingasögur Heather O'Donoghue; 13. Court poetry Diana Whaley; Part IV. The New Christian World: 14. Conversion and literature Christopher Abram; 15. Saints' lives Siân Grønlie; 16. Christian poetry Kirsten Wolf; 17. Homilies and Christian instruction Jonas Wellendorf; 18. Biskupa sögur Ásdís Egilsdóttir; Part V. Beyond Iceland: 19. Kings' sagas Erin Michelle Goeres; 20. Diaspora sagas Judith Jesch; 21. Riddarasögur Sif Ríkharðsdóttir; 22. Rímur M. J. Driscoll; Part VI. Compilations: 23. The Prose Edda Kevin J. Wanner; 24. Samtíðarsögur Ármann Jakobsson; 25. Learned literature Guðrún Nordal; 26. Grágás and the legal culture of Commonwealth Iceland William Ian Miller.mehr