1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780657103321

Autore

Guðrún Nordal

Titolo

Tools of literacy : the role of Skaldic verse in Icelandic textual culture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / / Guðrún Nordal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

{copy}2001

ISBN

1-4426-8266-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (451 p.)

Disciplina

839.61009

Soggetti

Scalds and scaldic poetry - History and criticism

Scalds and scaldic poetry - Social aspects

Old Norse literature - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Island Skaldendichtung Geschichte

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Skaldic Verse and Learning -- The Twelfth Century -- Drottkvaett and the study of grammatica -- The grammatical literature -- Hattalykill -- A twelfth-century poet: Bishop Kloeingr Porsteinsson -- Snorra Edda and the Study of Grammatica -- Manuscript textuality -- The medieval codices of Snorra Edda -- The manuscripts of Snorra Edda and the grammatical literature -- The Sources and the Thirteenth-Century Poet -- Sources of Skaldic Verse -- Textbooks and treatises -- Translations from Latin -- A saint's life -- Historical writing -- The Poet's Profession -- Professional poets -- Aristocratic poets in Iceland -- Clerics as poets -- Excursus: The Thirteenth-Century Poet -- Unknown thirteenth-century poets listed in both versions of Skaldatal and their patrons -- Twelfth-century poets in Sturlunga saga -- Known thirteenth-century poets -- Theory and Practice in Skaldic Poetics -- Theoretical Discussion of the Kenning -- The Kenning in vernacular literary theory -- The fusion of vernacular and Latin traditions -- The Kenning in grammatica -- Categories of meaning in Skaldskaparmal



and Litla Skalda -- Pulur -- Theory and Practice in Skaldic Verse -- The Poetic treatises -- The human body dismembered in skaldic diction -- Sources of Inspiration -- Cosmology, Learning, and Body Imagery -- Neoplatonist ideas and the world-body -- Ymir's body in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning -- The poetic landscape in body imagery -- Cosmological imagery -- Natural landscape -- Flora -- The human body -- Digging for Gold in Skaldic Verse.

Sommario/riassunto

"Tools of Literacy is a thorough, ground-breaking examination of skaldic verse or drottkvaett, Icelandic literary production in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and of the textual culture that nurtured the poets. Gudrun Nordal demonstrates the connection between skaldic verse and the formal study of grammatica in Icelandic schools, outlining how skaldic verse was treated much like a Nordic equivalent to classic texts. She also reevaluates and reemphasizes the versatility of skaldic verse, establishing the links between Icelandic authors and intellectual currents in Europe at the time. By systematically tying poets together with leading families of the time and with ecclesiastical and secular learning, Nordal shows how skaldic verse-making was one of the class symbols of the new aristocracy in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland." "In giving a faithful account of Icelandic skaldic verse-making at this time, Nordal has developed a database of approximately 1900 kennings and heiti which serves as a point of reference throughout the book. The book's content is new and its overall coverage is unique. Tools of Literacy will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of comparative literature, comparative mythology, Old Norse/Icelandic literature and language, and medieval studies."--Jacket



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778102903321

Autore

LaBouff Kathryn

Titolo

Singing and communicating in English [[electronic resource] ] : a singer's guide to English diction / / Kathryn LaBouff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-16369-4

9786611163693

0-19-804253-1

1-4356-3883-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

783/.043

Soggetti

Singing - Diction

English language - Phonetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-314) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Diction coach Kathyrn LaBouff provides singers with an accessible guide to the principles of English diction they need to communicate the text successfully. Her thorough technique clarifies the physiology of speech, emphasizes the studied practice of careful and articulate pronunciation and focuses on English cadence.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255082003321

Titolo

Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe : Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption / / edited by Daniel Bellingradt, Paul Nelles, Jeroen Salman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319533667

3319533665

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 305 p. 27 illus.)

Collana

New Directions in Book History, , 2634-6125

Disciplina

002

Soggetti

Books - History

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Europe - History - 1492-

History of the Book

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

History of Early Modern Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction - Books and Book History in Motion: Materiality, Sociality and Spaciality; Daniel Bellingradt and Jeroen Salman -- PART I: BEYOND PRODUCTION -- Chapter 2. Promoting the Counter-Reformation in Provincial France; Malcolm Walsby -- Chapter 3. Conrad Gessner and the Mobility of the Book; Paul Nelles -- Chapter 4. Paper Networks and the Book Industry; Daniel Bellingradt -- Chapter 5. Marketing a New Legal Code in Fifteenth Century Castile; Benito Rial Costas -- PART II: BEYOND CIRCULATION -- Chapter 6. Links between Newspapers and Books; Andreas Golob -- Chapter 7. Publishers, Editors, and Artists in the Marketing of News in the Dutch Republic circa 1700; Joop W. Koopmans -- Chapter 8. The Battle of Medical Books; Jeroen Salman -- Chapter 9. What killed Théodore Rilliet de Saussure?; Mark Curran -- PART III: BEYOND CONSUMPTION -- Chapter 10. Reading Strategies inScotland circa 1750-1820; Vivienne Dunstan -- Chapter 11. Italian Books and French Medical Libraries in the



Renaissance; Shanti Graheli -- Chapter 12. Printed in Europe, consumed in Ottoman lands; Geoffrey Roper -- Epilogue: Matter, Sociability and Space; Joad Raymond.

Sommario/riassunto

'This rich crop of new empirical research in book history focuses especially on the movement of books through markets and networks of users. Eleven case studies span an impressive variety of analytical techniques, primary sources, and contexts.' - Ann M. Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University, USA 'This book contributes significantly to a spatial turn in the history of the book. Its contributors identify innovative means of combining the study of the life-cycle of books with their mode and compass of transmission. The collection notably extends our understanding of the social history of knowledge.' - James Raven, Professor of Modern History, University of Essex, UK This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars inthe field. The rationale and content of this volume will revitalize the theoretical and methodological debate in book history. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science, ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production, circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media. .