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Beschreibung
The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.
The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Margaret Clunies Ross; 1. Social institutions and belief systems of medieval Iceland (ca. 870-1400) and their relation to literary production Preben Meulengracht Sørensen; 2. From orality to literacy in medieval Iceland Judy Quinn; 3. Poetry and its changing importance in medieval Icelandic culture Kari Ellen Gade; 4. Øláfr Pøarson hvítaskáld and oral poetry in the west of Iceland ca. 1250 Gísli Sigursson; 5. The conservation and reinterpretation of myth in medieval Icelandic writings Margaret Clunies Ross; 6. Medieval Iceland artes poeticae Stephen Tranter; 7. A useful past: historical writing in medieval Iceland Diana Whaley; 8. Sagas of Icelanders as the literary representation of a new social space Jürg Glauser; 9. The contemporary sagas and their social context Gürún Nordal; 10. The matter of the north: fiction and uncertain identities in thirteenth-century Iceland Torfi H. Tulinius; 11. Romance in Iceland Geraldine Barnes; 12. The Bible and biblical interpretation in medieval Iceland Ian Kirby; 13. Sagas of saints Margaret Cormack.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780521110259
ISBN-10: 0521110254
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Clunies Ross, Margaret
Redaktion: Clunies Ross, Margaret
Ross, Margaret Clunies
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Clunies Ross (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.2009
Gewicht: 0,572 kg
Artikel-ID: 101656321