1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457598903321

Autore

Ghosh Shami

Titolo

Kings' sagas and Norwegian history [[electronic resource] ] : problems and perspectives / / by Shami Ghosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-28078-7

9786613280787

90-04-21047-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, economies and cultures, , 1569-1462 ; ; v. 54

Disciplina

948.1/01072

Soggetti

Sagas - History and criticism

Old Norse literature - History and criticism

Kings and rulers in literature

Literature and history - Norway

Electronic books.

Norway Historiography

Norway History To 1030 Sources

Norway History 1030-1397 Sources

Norway Kings and rulers

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

Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Skaldic Verse and Saga Prose: Transmission and Reliability -- 3. Non-Native Sources and Influence -- 4. The Uses of the Past -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Concordance of Cited Passages from the 1932 and 2011 Editions of Morkinskinna -- Index of Modern Scholars Cited -- General Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an examination of some of the principal issues arising from the study of the kings’ sagas, the main narrative sources for Norwegian history before c. 1200. Providing an overview of the past two decades of scholarship, it discusses the vexed relationship between verse and prose and the reliability as historical sources of the verse alone or the combination of verse and prose; the possibility and extent



of non-native influence on the composition of these texts; and the function of the past, in particular given that most of the historiography of Norway was produced in Iceland. This book aims to stimulate studies of medieval Scandinavian historiography with its critical perspective on the texts and the scholarship, while also providing a useful work of reference in order to make this area of research accessible to scholars in cognate fields.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483565603321

Autore

Jiménez-Martínez César

Titolo

Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil’s 2013 Protests / / by César Jiménez-Martínez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030382384

3030382389

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages)

Disciplina

306.0981

327.2

Soggetti

Communication

Digital media

Ethnology - Latin America

Culture

Communication in politics

Diplomacy

Media and Communication

Digital and New Media

Latin American Culture

Political Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The June 2013 Protests and the Image of Brazil -- 2.



Theorising the Image of the Nation: Contestation, Media and Visibility -- 3. Before the June Journeys: The Contested Visibility of the ‘New’ Brazil -- 4. The Visible Nation: The Media Coverage of the June Journeys -- 5. Strategies of Mediated Visibility: Replacement, Adjustment and Re-appropriation -- 6. Conditions of Mediated Visibility: Routines, Norms, Technologies and Commercialism -- 7. Conclusion: Beyond the Visible, Beyond the June Journeys.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest. Focusing on the June 2013 protests in Brazil, it examines how different actors –authorities, activists, the national media, foreign correspondents– disseminated competing versions of ‘what Brazil was’ during that pivotal episode. The book offers a fresh conceptual approach, supported by media coverage analysis and original interviews, that demonstrates the potential of digital media to challenge power structures and establish new ways of representing the nation. It also highlights the vulnerability of both ‘old’ and ‘new’ media to forms of inequality and disruption due to political interferences, technological constraints, and continuing commercial pressures. Contributing to the study of media and the nation as well as media and social movements, the author throws into sharp relief the profound transformation of mediated nationhood in a digital and global media environment. .