A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-84384-564-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Old Norse, Englisch, Band 5, 389 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 841 g

Reihe: Studies in Old Norse Literature

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.

We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisation, evaluation and understanding of medieval prose and poetry alike; yet its definition has been elusive and its implications often left unexplored.
This volume opens up fundamental questions about Old Norse genre in theory and in practice. It offers an extensive range of theoretical approaches, investigating and critiquing current terms and situating its arguments within early Scandinavian and Icelandic oral-literary and manuscript contexts. It maps the ways in which genre and form engage with key thematic areas within the literary corpus,noting the different kinds of impact upon the genre system brought about by conversion to Christianity, the gradual adoption of European literary models, and social and cultural changes occurring in Scandinavian society. A case-study section probes both prototypical and hard-to-define cases, demonstrating the challenges that actual texts pose to genre theory in terms of hybridity, evolution and innovation. With an annotated taxonomy of Old Norse genres and an extensive bibliography, it is an indispensable resource for contemporary Old Norse-Icelandic literary studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bampi, Massimiliano

Larrington, Carolyne

Rikhardsdottir, Sif

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schorn, Brittany

Larrington, Carolyne

Kedwards, Dale

Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman

Goeres, Erin

Orning, Hans Jacob

Friðriksdóttir, Jóhanna Katrín

Quinn, Judy

Glauser, Jürg

Wanner, Kevin J.

Rösli, Lukas

Bampi, Massimiliano

Males, Mikael

Hermann, Pernille

Poole, Russell

Rikhardsdottir, Sif

Gropper, Stefanie

Tulinius, Torfi H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Massimiliano Bampi and Sif Rikhardsdottir
Genre - Massimiliano Bampi
Hybridity - Sif Rikhardsdottir
Terminology - Lukas Rösli
Form - Mikael Males
Orality, Textuality and Performance - Judy Quinn
Manuscripts and Codicology - Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
The Body Politic - Hans Jacob Orning
Geography - Dale Kedwards
Time and Space - Torfi H. Tulinius
Memory - Pernille Hermann
The Human Condition - Stefanie Gropper
God(s) - Carolyne Larrington
Wisdom - Brittany Schorn
Skaldic poetry - Case study: The Poetry of Torf-Einarr Rognvaldsson of Orkney - Erin Goeres
Eddic poetry - Case study: Sólarljóð - Carolyne Larrington
Þættir - Case study: Stjörnu-Odda draumr - Elizabeth Ashman Rowe
Íslendingasogur - Case study: Vatnsdæla saga - Russell Poole
Byskupasögur and heilagra manna sögur - Case study - Kevin J. Wanner
Romance - Case Study - Jürg Glauser
Annotated Taxonomy of Genres

Über Autor(innen)

Bampi, Massimiliano
MASSIMILIANO BAMPI is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Rikhardsdottir, Sif
Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.

Larrington, Carolyne
CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Professor of Medieval European Literature at Oxford University and Official Fellow in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford.

Kedwards, Dale
DALE KEDWARDS is HM Queen Margrethe II Distinguished Research Fellow at the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute, the National Museum of Iceland, and the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle.

Rikhardsdottir, Sif
Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.

Bampi, Massimiliano
MASSIMILIANO BAMPI is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Larrington, Carolyne
CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Professor of Medieval European Literature at Oxford University and Official Fellow in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford.