Cold counsel : women in Old Norse literature and mythology : a collection of essays / / edited by Sarah M. Anderson with Karen Swenson

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 839/.63009352042
• Soggetto topico: Old Norse literature - History and criticism; Mythology, Norse; Women in literature
• Altri autori: AndersonSarah M. <1950-> SwensonKaren
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : "og eru kold kvenna ra" / Sarah M. Anderson -- "En hon er blandin mjok" : women and insults in Old Norse literature / Zoe Borovsky -- Hildigunnr's lament / Carol J. Clover -- Women's voices in Old Norse literature : the case of Trojumanna saga / Randi Eldevik -- Taming the shrew : the rise of patriarchy and the subordination of the feminine in Old Norse literature / Helga Kress -- The re-emergence of women's voices in Icelandic literature, 1500-1800 / Shaun F.D. Hughes -- Vikings westward to Vinland : the problem of women / Jenny Jochens -- "zegi zu, zorr!" : gender, class, and discourse in zrymskvia / Jon Karl Helgason -- Fathers, mothers, and daughters : "Hver er araa?" / Marianne E. Kalinke -- A good day's work : Laxdœla saga, ch. 49 / Jonna Louis-Jensen -- Women's counsel in the Riddarasogur : the case of Parcevals saga / F. Regina Psaki -- The woman who knows : female characters of Eyrbyggia saga / Forrest S. Scott -- Male bonding, female body : the absenting of woman in "Bisclaretz ljo" / Kerry Shea -- Ambiguously gendered : the Skalds Jorunn, Aur and Steinunn / Sandra Ballif Straubhaar -- Women outside : discourse of community in Havamal / Karen Swenson -- Saga world and nineteenth-century Iceland : the case of women farmers / zorunn Sigurardottir.
• Sommario/riassunto: Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cold counsel
• ISBN: 1-134-82145-X; 0-203-77514-7; 1-134-82138-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821591303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II