Massimiliano Bampi – författare

This volume explores the interaction between emotion (as a literary phenomenon) and genre in medieval European literature. It draws on the field of the history of emotion to consider how the representation of emotion in literary works shapes generic expectations and signals generic frameworks. Alternatively, it considers how generic perceptions and conventions modulate or impact the emotive codes or styles used to convey the narrative matière.The volume presents a cross-cultural analysis of the various generic forms and their emotive codes in the linguistic and cultural traditions of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. In combining the methodological and theoretical perspectives of genre criticism and emotion studies for the first time in a systematic way, this volume is meant to fill a major gap in scholarship.Ranging across a wide array of literatures, including religious writings in Latin and Middle English, Old French lais, Old Norse saga literature, Middle High German Minnesang, and the medieval romance writ large, it aims to give insight into the ways in which generic frameworks and emotive codes interacted in giving shape to literary texts across medieval Europe.

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisation, evaluation and understanding of medieval prose and poetry alike; yet its definition has been elusive and its implications often left unexplored.This volume opens up fundamental questions about Old Norse genre in theory and in practice. It offers an extensive range of theoretical approaches, investigating and critiquing current terms and situating its arguments within early Scandinavian and Icelandic oral-literary and manuscript contexts. It maps the ways in which genre and form engage with key thematic areas within the literary corpus,noting the different kinds of impact upon the genre system brought about by conversion to Christianity, the gradual adoption of European literary models, and social and cultural changes occurring in Scandinavian society. A case-study section probes both prototypical and hard-to-define cases, demonstrating the challenges that actual texts pose to genre theory in terms of hybridity, evolution and innovation. With an annotated taxonomy of Old Norse genres and an extensive bibliography, it is an indispensable resource for contemporary Old Norse-Icelandic literary studies.

A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the categorisation, evaluation and understanding of medieval prose and poetry alike; yet its definition has been elusive and its implications often left unexplored.This volume opens up fundamental questions about Old Norse genre in theory and in practice. It offers an extensive range of theoretical approaches, investigating and critiquing current terms and situating its arguments within early Scandinavian and Icelandic oral-literary and manuscript contexts. It maps the ways in which genre and form engage with key thematic areas within the literary corpus,noting the different kinds of impact upon the genre system brought about by conversion to Christianity, the gradual adoption of European literary models, and social and cultural changes occurring in Scandinavian society. A case-study section probes both prototypical and hard-to-define cases, demonstrating the challenges that actual texts pose to genre theory in terms of hybridity, evolution and innovation. With an annotated taxonomy of Old Norse genres and an extensive bibliography, it is an indispensable resource for contemporary Old Norse-Icelandic literary studies.