The Cambridge introduction to the old Norse-Icelandic saga /

"The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Clunies Ross, Margaret (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010].
Collection:Cambridge introductions to literature.
Sujets:
Sagas > History and criticism.
Sagas > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Sagas.
Saga's.
Oudnoords.
littérature norroise > saga > Islande.
Íslendinga sögur > 0 Gesamtdarstellung.
Saga.
Altnordisch.
Isländska sagor.
IJsland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Medieval Iceland
  • What is an Old Norse-Icelandic saga?
  • The genesis of the Icelandic saga
  • Saga chronology
  • Saga subjects and settings
  • Saga mode, style and point of view
  • Saga structures
  • The material record: how we know the sagas
  • Changing understandings of the sagas.

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