Emotion in Old Norse Literature - Translations, Voices, Contexts

Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.

List of contents

Introduction
Literary Identities and Emotive Scripts
Emotive Subjectivity
Voice and Vocalisation
Public Masking and Emotive Interiority
Modulating Emotion
Conclusion

About the author

Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.

Summary

Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.

Product details

• Authors: Sif Rikhardsdottir
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781843844709
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-470-9
• No. of pages: 223
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 238 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Series: Studies in Old Norse Literatur; Studies in Old Norse Literature; Studies in Old Norse Literatur; Studies in Old Norse Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies