| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Old Norse literature, 2514-071X |
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Studies in Old Norse literature.
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| Contents |
1. Literary identities and emotive scripts. Ívens saga and Tristams saga ok Ísöndar -- 2. Emotive subjectivity. Egils saga Skallagrímassonar -- 3. Voice and vocalisation. Sonatorrek and Eddic poetry -- 4. Public masking and emotive interiority. Brennu-Njáls sags and Laxdœla saga -- 5. Modulating emotion Sigurár saga þo̧gla and the Maiden-King romance |
| Summary |
Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their readers and audiences to make sense of the behaviours and actions of fictive characters. But how can a narrative voice contained in a text evoke feelings that are ultimately never real or actual, but a figment of a text, a fictive reality created out of words? How does one reconcile interiority -- a presumed modern conceptualisation -- with medieval emotionality? The volume seeks to address these questions. It positions itself within the larger context of the history of emotion, offering a novel approach to the study of literary representations of emotionality and its staging through voice, performativity and narrative manipulation, probing how emotions are encoded in texts. The author argues that the deceptively laconic portrayal of emotion in the Icelandic sagas and other literature reveals an emotive script that favours reticence over expressivity and exposes a narrative convention of emotional subterfuge through narrative silences and the masking of emotion. Focusing on the ambivalent borders between prose and poetic language, she suggests that poetic vocalisation may provide a literary space within which emotive interiority can be expressed. The volume considers a wide range of Old Norse materials -- from translated romances through Eddic poetry and Islendingasogur (sagas of Icelanders) to Indigenous romance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-204) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emotions in literature.
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Old Norse literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Emotions in literature
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Old Norse literature
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787440746 |
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1787440745 |
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