Revisiting the poetic Edda : essays on Old Norse heroic legend / / edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington
| Revisiting the poetic Edda : essays on Old Norse heroic legend / / edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina | 839.6/1009 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AckerPaul
LarringtonCarolyne |
| Collana | Routledge Medieval Casebooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Eddas - History and criticism
Old Norse poetry - History and criticism Legends - Scandinavia |
| ISBN |
1-136-22786-5
1-138-93699-5 0-203-09860-9 1-136-22787-3 |
| Classificazione | LIT011000HIS037010LIT000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revisiting the Poetic Edda; Introduction to Chapter 1; 1 Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems; Introduction to Chapters 2 and 3; 2 Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems"; 3 Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art; Introduction to Chapters 4, 5 and 6; 4 Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context; 5 Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún's Healing Tears; 6 "Gerðit hon . . . sem konor aðrar": Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry
Introduction to Chapter 77 "I Have Long Desired to Cure You of Old Age": Sibling Drama in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda; Introduction to Chapter 8; 8 Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: Interpreting Grottasöngr; 9 The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?; 10 Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda; 11 Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty; 12 Writing into the Gap: Tolkien's Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779738503321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Revisiting the poetic Edda : essays on Old Norse heroic legend / / edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington
| Revisiting the poetic Edda : essays on Old Norse heroic legend / / edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina | 839.6/1009 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AckerPaul <1952->
LarringtonCarolyne |
| Collana | Routledge Medieval Casebooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Eddas - History and criticism
Old Norse poetry - History and criticism Legends - Scandinavia |
| ISBN |
1-136-22786-5
1-138-93699-5 0-203-09860-9 1-136-22787-3 |
| Classificazione | LIT011000HIS037010LIT000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revisiting the Poetic Edda; Introduction to Chapter 1; 1 Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems; Introduction to Chapters 2 and 3; 2 Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems"; 3 Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art; Introduction to Chapters 4, 5 and 6; 4 Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context; 5 Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún's Healing Tears; 6 "Gerðit hon . . . sem konor aðrar": Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry
Introduction to Chapter 77 "I Have Long Desired to Cure You of Old Age": Sibling Drama in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda; Introduction to Chapter 8; 8 Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: Interpreting Grottasöngr; 9 The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?; 10 Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda; 11 Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty; 12 Writing into the Gap: Tolkien's Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910968530203321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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