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Beschreibung
This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop Boys. Jakobsson examines minor characters and their role, as well as their absence, through narratology. He also studies the sagas as literature, arguing that few elements open up sagas as much as how minor characters function.
This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop Boys. Jakobsson examines minor characters and their role, as well as their absence, through narratology. He also studies the sagas as literature, arguing that few elements open up sagas as much as how minor characters function.
Über den Autor
Ármann Jakobsson is Professor of Old Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Unimportance.- Martin Guerre.-The Passing of Time.-Empathy.-Unimportant Task .-The Anticlimax of Anxiety .-The Magnates and the Heap.- Ill Auguries .-Back to Black .-Dogs and Norwegians .-Head Boy .-Sleepy Boy .-Fashion-Conscious Boy.-Pragmatic Boy .-The Granny and the Weed.-Commonplace Ambition.-Woman in a Hurry.-Peacemaking Woman.- Wandering Women.-Giggling Woman.-Horny Servants.-Bad Stance .-Wise Eastman .-The Game of Parliament.-Demon Boys.-There Will Be Blood.-Doppelgänger.-Tears of Contrition, Dreams of Conscience.- Existential Roshambo.-In-Text Audience.-Over.-Cool.-Hesitation.- Expansion.- Irrelevance.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: vii
147 S.
1 s/w Illustr.
147 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13: 9783032111869
ISBN-10: 3032111862
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 89581835
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Jakobsson, Ármann
Hersteller: Springer
Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 216 x 153 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Ármann Jakobsson
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2026
Gewicht: 0,321 kg
Artikel-ID: 134503239