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Viking mediologies : a new history of skaldic poetics /

"Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship-distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are prese...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Heslop, Kate (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Fordham series in medieval studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • General Abbreviations
  • Abbreviations for Poets and Poems
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Making Memories
  • Rök and Ynglingatal
  • 1. Death in Place
  • 2. Forging the Chain
  • Stone-Stanza-Memory
  • Part 2. Seeing Things
  • 3. The Viking Eye
  • 4. Seeing, Knowing, and Believing in the Prose Edda
  • Part 3. Hearing Voices
  • 5. The Noise of Poetry
  • 6. A Poetry Machine
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author.