Cultural legacies of Old Norse literature : new perspectives /

An exciting new collection of essays exploring the starting variety of transformations with Old Norse-Icelandic texts and across its wider literary culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Crocker, Christopher (Editor ), Geeraert, Dustin (Editor ), Ceolin, Martina, Jakobsson, Ármann, Johnson, Ryan E., Korten, Meghan, McGillivray, Andrew, O'Donoghue, Heather, Shippey, Tom, Toswell, M. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2022.
Temas:
Old Norse literature > History and criticism.
Old Norse literature > Influence.
Littérature vieux norroise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature vieux norroise > Influence.
Old Norse literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on the Text
  • Introduction
  • 1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland
  • 2. Íslendingabók as Narrative History
  • 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland
  • 4. Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print
  • 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist
  • 6. Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North'
  • 7. Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum
  • 8. Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál
  • Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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