A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.

List of contents

Introduction - Massimiliano Bampi and Sif Rikhardsdottir
Genre - Massimiliano Bampi
Hybridity - Sif Rikhardsdottir
Terminology - Lukas Rösli
Form - Mikael Males
Orality, Textuality and Performance - Judy Quinn
Manuscripts and Codicology - Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
The Body Politic - Hans Jacob Orning
Geography - Dale Kedwards
Time and Space - Torfi H. Tulinius
Memory - Pernille Hermann
The Human Condition - Stefanie Gropper
God(s) - Carolyne Larrington
Wisdom - Brittany Schorn
Skaldic poetry - Case study: The Poetry of Torf-Einarr Rognvaldsson of Orkney - Erin Goeres
Eddic poetry - Case study: Sólarljóð - Carolyne Larrington
Þættir - Case study: Stjörnu-Odda draumr - Elizabeth Ashman Rowe
Íslendingasogur - Case study: Vatnsdæla saga - Russell Poole
Byskupasögur and heilagra manna sögur - Case study - Kevin J. Wanner
Romance - Case Study - Jürg Glauser
Annotated Taxonomy of Genres

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Massimiliano Bampi, Carolyne Larrington, Sif Rikhardsdottir

Summary

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.

Product details

• Authors: Massimiliano Bampi, Dale Kedwards, Carolyne Larrington, Sif Rikhardsdottir, Brittany Schorn
• Assisted by: Massimiliano Bampi (Editor), Carolyne Larrington (Editor), Sif Rikhardsdottir (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781843845645
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-564-5
• No. of pages: 389
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 162 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 840 g
• Illustrations: 1 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
• Series: Studies in Old Norse Literatur; Studies in Old Norse Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Skandinavische Sprachen, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian