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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Bandamanna Saga
Author: The Conflict of Law and Justice in the Icelandic Sagas
Author: William PencakPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004463844
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The world's longest lasting republic between ancient Rome and modern Switzerland, medieval Iceland (c. 870-1262) centered its national literature, the great family sagas, around the problem of can a republic survive and do justice to its inhabitants. The Conflict of Law and Justice in the Icelandic Sagas takes a semiotic approach to six of the major sagas which depict a nation of free men, abetted by formidable women, testing conflicting legal codes and principles - pagan v. Christian, vengeance v. compromise, monarchy v. republicanism, courts v. arbitration. The sagas emerge as a body of great literature embodying profound reflections on political and legal philosophy because they do not offer simple solutions, but demonstrate the tragic choices facing legal thinkers (Njal), warriors (Gunnar), outlaws (Grettir), women (Gudrun of Laxdaela Saga), priests (Snorri of Eyrbyggja Saga), and the Icelandic community in its quest for stability and a good society. Guest forewords by Robert Ginsberg and Roberta Kevelson, set the book in the contexts of philosophy, semiotics, and Icelandic studies to which it contributes.
Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders
Author: Gareth Lloyd EvansPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192566857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders—and taking into account a number of little-studied sagas as well as the more well-known works—it comprehensively interrogates the construction, operation, and problematization of masculinities in this genre. Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders elucidates the dominant model of masculinity that operates in the sagas, demonstrates how masculinities and masculine characters function within these texts, and investigates the means by which the sagas, and saga characters, may subvert masculine dominance. Combining close literary analysis with insights drawn from sociological theories of hegemonic and subordinated masculinities, notions of homosociality and performative gender, and psychoanalytic frameworks, the book brings to men and masculinities in saga literature the same scrutiny traditionally brought to the study of women and femininities. Ultimately, the volume demonstrates that masculinity is not simply glorified in the sagas, but is represented as being both inherently fragile and a burden to all characters, masculine and non-masculine alike.
An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders
Author: Carl PhelpsteadPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813057566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Phelpstead explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism. He then presents readings of select individual sagas, pointing out how the genre’s various source traditions and thematic concerns interact. Including an overview of the history of English translations that shows how they have been stimulated and shaped by ideas about identity, and featuring a glossary of critical terms, this book is an essential resource for students of the literary form. A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh
Sturlunga Saga
Author: Guðbrandur VigfússonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280)
Author: Theodore Murdock AnderssonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801444081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Andersson introduces readers to the development of the Icelandic sagas between 1180 and 1280, a crucial period that witnessed a gradual shift of emphasis from tales of adventure and personal distinction to the analysis of politics and history.
A History of Icelandic Literature
Author: Daisy L. NeijmannPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803233469
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.
Islandica
Author: Bandamanna Saga
Author: Bibliography of the Icelandic Sagas and Minor Tales
Author: Halldór HermannssonPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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