Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry /
While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offer...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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Colección: | Trends in medieval philology ;
34. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of Tables
- 1. Introduction: a Word to the Wise
- 2. Gáttir allar, áðr gangi fram, um scoðask scyli: Approaching Wisdom in Eddic Poetry
- 3. Mankind and the Supernatural World in Eddic Wisdom Verse
- 4. Speaker and Situation in the Mythological Frames of Wisdom Poetry
- 5. Traditional Forms and Christian Authority
- 6. The Authority of Wisdom
- 7. Abbreviations
- 8. Bibliography
- 9. Index.