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5 produkter
Margins, Monsters, Deviants
Alterities in Old Norse Literature and Culture
Av Rebecca Merkelbach, Gwendolyne Knight
Inbunden, 2020
1366 kr
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Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur
Rogue Sagas
Inbunden, 2024
1499 kr
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Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas. The late Sagas of Icelanders, thought to be written in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, have hitherto received little scholarly attention. Previous generations of critics have unfavourably …
Monsters in Society
Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland
E-bok, 2019
1812 kr
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Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstrosity – it only means …
Monsters in Society
Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland
Inbunden, 2019
2071 kr
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Employingliterary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historicalapproaches, Social Monstrosity and theSagas of the Icelanders reads themonsters of the Íslendingasögur intheir literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are notdistractions from feud and conflict, but …
