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The Cambridge history of old Norse-Icelandic literature / edited by Heather O'Donoghue, Eleanor Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Old Norse literature--History and criticism.
- Old Norse literature.
- Icelandic literature--History and criticism.
- Icelandic literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 634 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "An in-depth, accessible history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this book provides analysis of all key genres in this celebrated body of writing and of their literary and historical contexts. Through essays by internationally distinguished scholars, it presents a fresh, unified, authoritative guide for specialists, students and general readers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- History : Iceland from the settlement to 1400 CE / Haki Antonsson
- Manuscripts and textual culture / Emily Lethbridge
- Poetic language, form and metre / R.D. Fulk
- Theoretical approaches / Torfi H. Tulinius
- Reception / Verena Höfig
- Landscape and material culture / Jane Harrison
- Mythological poetry / Judy Quinn
- Heroic poetry / Carolyne Larrington
- Fornaldarsögur / Annette Lassen
- Íslendingasögur / Margaret Clunies Ross
- Poets' sagas / Alison Finlay
- Prosimetrum in the Íslendingasögur / Heather O'Donoghue
- Court poetry / Diana Whaley
- Conversion and literature / Christopher Abram
- Saints' lives / Siân Grønlie
- Christian poetry / Kirsten Wolf
- Homilies and Christian instruction / Jonas Wellendorf
- Biskupa sögur / Ásdís Egilsdóttir
- Kings' sagas / Erin Michelle Goeres
- Diaspora sagas / Judith Jesch
- Riddarasögur / Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
- Rímur / M.J. Driscoll
- The prose Edda / Kevin J. Wanner
- Samtíðarsögur / Ármann Jakobsson
- Learned literature / Guðrún Nordal
- Grágás and the legal culture of commonwealth Iceland / William Ian Miller.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record and online resource (Cambridge University Press, viewed May 31, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cambridge history of old Norse-Icelandic literature
- ISBN:
- 9781108762618
- 1108762611
- 1108807690
- 9781108807692
- OCLC:
- 1391683316
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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