Winter Deals väntar – Shoppa nu!

Winter Deals väntar – Shoppa nu!

Fri Frakt över 299kr
Fri Frakt över 299kr
Kundservice
The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180–1280) (häftad, eng)

Cornell University Press

The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180–1280) (häftad, eng)

379 kr

379 kr

Få kvar

Tis, 7 jan - ons, 8 jan


Säker betalning

Öppet köp till och med 7/1-25


Säljs och levereras av

Buyersclub.se


Produktbeskrivning

In this book, Theodore M. Andersson, a leading scholar of the Norse sagas, introduces readers to the development of the Icelandic sagas between 1180 and 1280, a crucial period that witnessed a gradual shift of emphasis from tales of adventure and personal distinction to the analysis of political and historical propositions.

Beginning with the first full-length sagas and culminating in the acknowledged masterpiece Njáls saga, Andersson emphasizes a historical perspective, establishing a chronology for seventeen of the most important sagas and showing how they evolve thematically and stylistically over the century under study.

Revisiting the long-standing debate about the oral and literary components of the sagas, Andersson argues that there is a clear progression from the somewhat mechanical gathering of oral lore in the early sagas to an increasingly tight and authorially controlled composition in the later sagas.

The early sagas—including The Legendary Saga of Saint Olaf and Odd Snorrason''s Saga of Olaf Tryggvason—focus on conspicuous individuals and their memorable deeds; later works are more apt to formulate the abstract problems and ideas that preoccupied their authors.

As the authors begin to impose their views on the inherited narratives, the sagas become more and more critical and self-conscious, to the point where Njáls saga may be considered not only to approximate a novel in our sense of the term but also to comment on the saga form.




Format Häftad Omfång 248 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Cornell University Press Utgivningsdatum 2012-08-01 ISBN 9780801477829

Artikel.nr.

3c1efe4c-d191-5e70-a132-140b784753a3

Cornell University Press

The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180–1280) (häftad, eng)

379 kr

379 kr

Få kvar

Tis, 7 jan - ons, 8 jan


Säker betalning

Öppet köp till och med 7/1-25


Säljs och levereras av

Buyersclub.se