Emotion in Old Norse literature : translations, voices, contexts /

Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their readers and audiences to make sense of the behaviours and actions of fictive characters. But how can a narrative voice contained in a text evoke feelings that are ultimately never real or actual, but a figment of a text, a fict...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, [2017]
Series:Studies in Old Norse literature.
Subjects:
Emotions in literature.
Old Norse literature > History and criticism.
Littérature vieux norroise > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Emotions in literature
Old Norse literature
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Literary identities and emotive scripts. Ívens saga and Tristams saga ok Ísöndar
  • 2. Emotive subjectivity. Egils saga Skallagrímassonar
  • 3. Voice and vocalisation. Sonatorrek and Eddic poetry
  • 4. Public masking and emotive interiority. Brennu-Njáls sags and Laxdœla saga
  • 5. Modulating emotion Sigurár saga þo̧gla and the Maiden-King romance.

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