1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481036003321

Autore

Jackson Tatjana N.

Titolo

Eastern Europe in Icelandic sagas / / Tatjana N. Jackson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-64189-027-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Beyond medieval Europe

Disciplina

839.63093247

Soggetti

Sagas - History and criticism

Europe, Eastern In literature

Scandinavia Civilization Foreign influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Sources, Aims, Conventions -- Part 1. Eastern Europe in the Old Norse Weltbild -- Part 2. Four Norwegian Kings in Old Rus' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the 'oecumene' in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826488203321

Autore

Ma Sheng-mei

Titolo

The last isle : contemporary film, culture and trauma in global Taiwan / / Sheng-mei Ma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78348-340-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Place, Memory, Affect

Disciplina

792.10923489

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Taiwan - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Political aspects - Taiwan

Psychic trauma in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Trauma and Taiwan's Melodrama; Chapter Two: Island's Irony; Chapter Three: Mazu's Touch, Taiwan Nezha and Crying; Chapter Four: Globalization's Bottom; Chapter Five: Wet Umbrella from Asian Film to The White Snake; Chapter Six: Hyde-and-Seek in Asian Diaspora; Chapter Seven: Sold Mountain; Chapter Eight: Nestlé in Shalu; Chapter Nine: Taiwan's English Education; Chapter Ten: The Fate of Accidental Taiwanese; Coda; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>Explores the affective toll of Taiwan's geographical and political proximity to China through a critical analysis of contemporary Taiwanese film and culture. It examines the complex, precarious relationship between the sovereign state of Taiwan and China in order to consider what this might mean global anxiety around the growing power of China. </span></span>