Description |
1 online resource (xv, 216 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Front cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Foreword: Old Norse and the Porous Boundaries of Medievalism -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Medieval Iceland -- 2. Íslendingabók as Narrative History -- 3. Women's Work and Material Culture in Medieval Iceland -- 4. Vafþrúðnismál, from Parchment to Print -- 5. The Odinic Motif: The Wanderer in the Mist -- 6. Shapeshifting, God, and Nature in the 'Great Story of the North' -- 7. Günter Grass's Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum |
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8. Transforming Myth in Gerður Kristný's Blóðhófnir and the Eddic Poem Skírnismál -- Afterword: Ethnographic Medievalisms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
An exciting new collection of essays exploring the starting variety of transformations with Old Norse-Icelandic texts and across its wider literary culture |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 11, 2022) |
Subject |
Old Norse literature -- History and criticism
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Old Norse literature -- Influence
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Old Norse literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Crocker, Christopher, editor
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Geeraert, Dustin, editor
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Ceolin, Martina
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Jakobsson, Ármann
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Johnson, Ryan E
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Korten, Meghan
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McGillivray, Andrew
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O'Donoghue, Heather
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Shippey, Tom
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Toswell, M. J
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ISBN |
9781800106109 |
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1800106106 |
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1800106092 |
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9781800106093 |
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