| Autore |
O'Donoghue Heather
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2004
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| Descrizione fisica |
ix, 241 p. : ill
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| Disciplina |
839/.609
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| Collana |
Blackwell introductions to literature
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| Soggetto topico |
English literature - Old Norse influences
Old Norse literature - History and criticism
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| ISBN |
0470776838
9780470776834
9780470776063
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chronology -- Preface -- 1 Iceland -- The Beginnings -- Language -- Cultural Heritage -- Discovery and Settlement -- 2 The Saga -- What Is a Saga? -- Are Family Sagas Medieval Novels? -- Are Family Sagas Chronicles of Time Past? -- Three Extracts: Egils saga, Vatnsdœla saga and Laxdœla saga -- 3 New Knowledge and Native Traditions -- Latin Learning -- Eddaic and Skaldic Verse -- Historical Writings -- Fornaldarsögur -- Riddarasögur and Rímur -- 4 The Politics of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature -- Iceland and Scandinavian Nationalism -- Old Norse-Icelandic as 'Ancient Poetry' -- Bishop Percy's Translations -- Gray's 'Norse Odes' -- The Romantic Viking -- Our Friends in the North -- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies in Academia -- The Debate about Saga Origins -- Why is Old Norse English Literature? -- Old Norse-Icelandic and English Medieval Literature -- 5 The Influence of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature -- Blake -- Tolkien and Fantasy Literature -- Scott, Kingsley and Haggard -- Landor, Arnold and Morris -- Stevenson, Hardy and Galsworthy -- MacDiarmid, Mackay Brown, and Auden and MacNeice -- Heaney and Muldoon -- Appendix: Hrafnkell's Saga -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820703403321 |
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Old Norse-Icelandic literature [[electronic resource] ] : a short introduction / / Heather O'Donoghue
