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From Romanticism to Critical Theoryby Andrew Bowie
Routledge 1996; US$ 44.95This study offers a new view of literary theory as an essential part of modern philosophy and contests the view that it is a product of deconstruction. more...
A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Cultureby Rory McTurk
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008; US$ 219.95This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times. Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in the field Reflects current debates among Old Norse-Icelandic scholars Pays attention to previously neglected areas of study, such as the sagas of Icelandic bishops and the fantasy sagas Looks at the ways Old Norse-Icelandic literature is used by modern writers, artists and film directors, both within and outside Scandinavia Sets Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature in its wider cultural context more...
Fagrskinna, a catalogue of the Kings of Norwayby A. Finlay
BRILL 2004; US$ 155.00This work includes the first complete translation of a 13th-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the 12th centuries. This translation preserves many of the metrical features of this complex verse form, which are explained in the commentary. more...
Icelanders and the Kings of Norwayby Patricia Pires Boulhosa
BRILL 2005; US$ 164.00The book discusses the relation between the Icelanders and the mediaeval Norwegian kings, as it appears in sagas and legal texts. By reassessing legal material and the sagas of Möðruvallabók, it finds the Icelanders partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power. more...
Old Norse-Icelandic Literatureby Heather O'Donoghue
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 121.95From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse. An introduction helps readers to appreciate the language and culture of the first settlers in Iceland. Looks at the reception of Old-Norse-Icelandic literature over the ages, as views of the vikings have changed. Shows how a whole range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by Old Norse-Icelandic literature. more...
Die Karlamagnús-saga I Und Ihre Altfranzösische Vorlageby Gustav Adolf Beckmann
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 104.00The 13th century Old Norse Karlamagnús-Saga, a monumental biography of Charlemagne from translated and adapted French Caroline epics such as the Chanson de Roland, is a fascinating example of intensive reception at a distance. Its first branch appears to pre-empt the whole in a compressed form, and has thus been puzzling scholars for more than a century. This study is the first to illuminate the circumstances surrounding the genesis of its French model, and a running commentary allows the present-day reader to approach the text (even without a knowledge of Old Norse). more...
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Sagaby Margaret Clunies Ross
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00Guides students through the texts and contexts of the medieval Scandinavian saga. more...
Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrativeby Heather O'Donoghue
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 163.50Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects. In sagas, there is a fundamental distinction between verses which areostensibly quoted to corroborate what is stated in the narrative, and verses which are presented as the speech of characters in the saga. Corroborative verses are typical of-but not confined to-historical writings, the verses acting as a footnote to the narrative. Dialogue verses,... more...
Kings' Sagas and Norwegian Historyby Shami Ghosh
BRILL 2011; US$ 166.00Surveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research. more...
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