The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

Höfundur: ├ürmann Jakobsson (Útgáfa: 1)
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

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The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781317041467
Print ISBN
9781472433305
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Ármann Jakobsson
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2017-02-17
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100

Kaflar

  • Cover Page
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Notes
  • 1 Genre
  • The Current Debate
  • Defining Genre
  • Approaching Heterogeneity
  • Examining Extraliterary Factors
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • 2 Dating and Origins
  • Introduction
  • Landnámabók
  • Oral Tradition
  • The Growth of Íslendingasögur
  • The Earliest Sagas
  • Mid- to Late-Thirteenth-Century Sagas
  • ‘Post-Classical’ Sagas
  • Notes
  • 3 Literacy
  • Latin Literacy
  • Vernacular Literacy
  • Writing and Memory
  • Inscribing Practice
  • Social Basis of Text Production
  • Elite Culture
  • Literacy and Cultural Memory
  • Sagas as Written Medium in Oral Contexts
  • Deoralization
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 4 Ecclesiastical Literature and Hagiography
  • Style
  • Contents
  • Notes
  • 5 Courtly Literature
  • Sources: Themes, Historical Context, and Manuscripts
  • Main Issues
  • Lexis, Motifs, and Structure
  • Reception: Social Context and Function
  • Riddarasögur Scholarship Contextualized
  • Notes
  • 6 Indigenous and Latin Literature
  • The Church and Latin Literature
  • Original Latin Sagas and Their Influence
  • Oddr's Gesta Olavi filii Tryggva and Heimskringla's Óláfs saga
  • Latin Models
  • Scattered Examples
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • 7 History and Fiction
  • Saga as Historiography: Translated Histories, konungasögur, and samtíðarsögur
  • Íslendingasögur and the Meanings of ‘Fiction’
  • Fornaldarsögur and riddarasögur: Histories or Romances?
  • Fornaldarsögur
  • Riddarasögur
  • In Quest of the ‘Rise of Fiction’: Some Key Indicators
  • Notes
  • 8 Style
  • The Basic Level
  • Objectivity
  • Formulas
  • Speech: Terse and Emotional
  • Realism
  • The Origin of Saga Style
  • Notes
  • 9 Structure
  • Sagas and the Arrival of Formalism
  • Continuation and Conflict
  • Thematic Concerns and the Artistic Narrative
  • Notes
  • 10 Drama and Performativity
  • Prelude: Classical Drama Theory
  • Medieval Dramatic Traditions
  • The Dramatic Structure of the Sagas
  • The Dramatic Matter of the Sagas
  • The Dramatic Mode of the Sagas
  • Saga Performances and Saga Performativity
  • Conclusions and Perspectives
  • Notes
  • 11 The Long and the Short of It
  • The Corpus of þættir
  • Categorizing þættir
  • Measuring Saga Size
  • Notes
  • 12 Narratives and Documents
  • Notes
  • 13 Space
  • Introduction: Space as a Historico-Political Problem
  • Space as a Category of Culture
  • Landscapes of Power
  • Spatial Representations and Sacred Space
  • Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Heterotopias
  • Notes
  • 14 Time
  • The History of Time/The Time of History
  • The Sagas in Time
  • Reading Time
  • Kinds of Time/Kinds of Text
  • The Future
  • Notes
  • 15 Fate
  • Early Scholarship
  • Contemporary Studies
  • Analyses of Selected Sagas of Icelanders
  • Vatnsdœla saga
  • Gísla saga
  • Hrafnkels saga
  • Notes
  • 16 Travel
  • Oral Echoes
  • Travel and World View
  • Communication
  • Meeting the Locals
  • Motivations
  • Notes
  • 17 Heroism
  • A Golden Age and Past Heroic Deeds
  • From Character Portrait to Literary Analysis – Ambiguity and Irony
  • Saga Heroism at a Cultural Crossroads – Ethics and Ideologies
  • Notes
  • 18 Gender
  • Masculine and Feminine Roles in the Sagas: An Overview
  • Masculinity
  • Femininity
  • Men and Women: Intersections
  • Heterosexual Relationships
  • The Body and Performativity
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 19 Emotions
  • History of the Study of Emotions
  • Saga Emotions
  • Anthropological Perspectives and Textual Criticism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 20 Marginality
  • Centrality and Marginality in the Sagas
  • Centrality and Marginality in Myth
  • Níð and Ergi in Saga and Law
  • Liminality and the Other
  • Notes
  • 21 The Paranormal
  • Monsters and Critics
  • Paranormal Activity
  • Paranormal Ontology
  • Monsters as Critics
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 22 Christian Themes
  • Kings' sagas and the þættir
  • Christian Influence in the Íslendingasögur
  • The Dialogues of Njáls saga Revisited
  • Notes
  • 23 Feud
  • Anthropological and Historiographical Background
  • Feud in Medieval Iceland: Classic Studies
  • The Structure and Meaning of Feud
  • Feud and Gender
  • Feud and Mythology
  • Recent Trends: Beyond Anthropology, Beyond Feud?
  • Final Remarks
  • Notes
  • 24 Class
  • The Starting Point: Peasant or Chieftain Society?
  • Peasant Society
  • Chieftain Society
  • Towards the Formation of a Class Society?
  • Post-Saga/Post-Independence
  • Notes
  • 25 World View
  • Encountering the Other: Anthropological Perspectives
  • Otherness and Saga Studies
  • Icelandic or Norwegian World View?
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • 26 Artistic Reception
  • The History of Artistic Saga Reception
  • Studies on the Modern Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture
  • Specialized Studies on Saga Reception
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • 27 Digital Norse
  • Who are we Digital Medievalists?
  • Digital Tools in between Making and Interpreting
  • Old Norse and Germanic Projects
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index