Viking mediologies : a new history of Skaldic poetics / Kate Heslop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heslop, Kate, author.

Series:

Fordham series in medieval studies.

Fordham scholarship online.

Fordham series in medieval studies

Fordham scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scalds and scaldic poetry--History and criticism.

Scalds and scaldic poetry.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.

Summary:

'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 preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop reconsiders these not as texts but as pieces in a pre-modern media landscape, focusing on poetry's medial capacity to embody memory, visuality, and sound.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

General Abbreviations

Abbreviations for poets and poems

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Making Memories

Rök and Ynglingatal

Chapter 1 Death in Place

Chapter 2 Forging the Chain

Stone—stanza—memory

Part 2 Seeing Things

Chapter 3 The Viking Eye

Chapter 4 Seeing, Knowing, and Believing in the Prose Edda

Part 3 Hearing Voices

Chapter 5 The Noise of Poetry

Chapter 6 A Poetry Machine

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 13, 2022).

ISBN:

9781531500733

1531500730

OCLC:

1300916288