New Norse Studies
Author | : Jeffrey Turco |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Middle Ages |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeffrey Turco |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Middle Ages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeffrey Turco |
Publisher | : Cornell University Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Iceland |
ISBN | : 9780935995237 |
New Norse Studies features original contributions on Norse mythology; skaldic poetics; the proverb, ballad, and exemplum; Biblical typology and saga narrative; psychological, postcolonial, and gender-studies approaches to medieval Icelandic literature.
Author | : Eric Shane Bryan |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1843845970 |
An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value.
Author | : Haldor Byrkjeflot |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000504034 |
This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, public diplomats and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests. This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author | : Geraldine Barnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Old Norse literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dustin Geeraert |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2022-08-23 |
Genre | : Mythology, Norse, in literature |
ISBN | : 1843846381 |
The cultural and literary legacy of medieval Iceland, with its roots in Norse heathen religion, heroic literature, and Viking Age history, is the focus of this volume. Its chapters examine the history and reception of a particular text or topic within this remarkable tradition. They treat a number of topics, including the legendary dragon-slayer Sigurd, the many personas of the mysterious god Odin, aspects of the ancient mythology of gods and giants, the early settlement of Iceland, the defiant Viking warriors known as the "Sworn Brothers", the entrepreneurial role of cloth production in medieval Scandinavia, the codicology and book history of key literary works, the many references to medieval Nordic lore in modern fiction and poetry, and the cultural position of islands such as Iceland in relation to the ebb and flow of religions, institutions and empires. Reconsidering these areas of Old Norse-Icelandic literary culture reveals the striking resilience and adaptability of its traditions, through a startling variety of transformations.
Author | : Jürg Glauser |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 1152 |
Release | : 2018-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 311043136X |
In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.
Author | : Gareth Lloyd Evans |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843845628 |
Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of masculinities, from the sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas, kings' sagas, legendary sagas, chivalric sagas, bishops' sagas, and eddic and skaldic verse, producing a broad and multifaceted understanding of what it means to be masculine in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. A critical introduction places the essays in their scholarly context, providing the reader with a concise orientation in gender studies and the study of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. This book's investigation of how masculinities are constructed and challenged within a unique literature is all the more vital in the current climate, in which Old Norse sources are weaponised to support far-right agendas and racist ideologies are intertwined with images of vikings as hypermasculine. This volume counters these troubling narratives of masculinity through explorations of Old Norse literature that demonstrate how masculinity is formed, how it is linked to violence and vulnerability, how it governs men's relationships, and how toxic models of masculinity may be challenged.
Author | : Joseph Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This selection by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill of twelve of Joseph Harris's most important essays underscores the range of his work from critical readings of canonical texts to philological elucidation of Old Norse and Old English literary works to discussions of larger theoretical issues such as oral theory. One of the central problems of medieval literary scholarship is the aesthetics of traditional and oral literature, and how and whether one can meaningfully discuss the literary history of an oral genre. Harris's studies of such topics as the Old Norse short narrative and of the Masterbuilder tale focus precisely on such problems and offer brilliant readings of specific texts as well as models of literary historical discourse. "Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing" also shows that Harris's work frequently bridges the divide between the Latin and Christian sources and the native vernacular traditions that together found their way into Old Norse and Old English literature.For more about the Islandica series, visit http: //cip.cornell.edu/Islandica.
Author | : J. Friðriksdóttir |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137118067 |
Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences.