Narrative In The Icelandic Family Saga

Author : Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786736314

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Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga by Heather O'Donoghue Pdf

Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world's greatest literature. Here, Heather O'Donoghue skilfully examines the notions of time and the singular textual voice of the Sagas, offering a fresh perspective on the foundational texts of Old Norse and medieval Icelandic heritage. With a conspicuous absence of giants, dragons, and fairy tale magic, these sagas reflect a real-world society in transition, grappling with major new challenges of identity and development. As this book reveals, the stance of the narrator and the role of time – from the representation of external time passing to the audience's experience of moving through a narrative – are crucial to these stories. As such, Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga draws on modern narratological theory to explore the ways in which saga authors maintain the urgency and complexity of their material, handle the narrative and chronological line, and offer perceptive insights into saga society. In doing so, O'Donoghue presents a new poetics of family sagas and redefines the literary rhetoric of saga narratives.

Author : Theodore Murdock Andersson
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Old Norse literature
ISBN : UOM:39015006563822

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The Icelandic Family Saga by Theodore Murdock Andersson Pdf

An attempt to come to grips with the family saga as formal narrative.

Author : Knut Liestøl
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : IND:39000005867390

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The Origin of the Icelandic Family Sagas by Knut Liestøl Pdf

Author : Jeff Janoda
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780897338127

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Saga by Jeff Janoda Pdf

This retelling of the ancient Saga of the People of Eyri is a modern classic. Absolutely gripping and compulsively readable, Booklist said this book, "does what good historical fiction is supposed to do: put a face on history that is recognizable to all." And medieval expert Tom Shippey, writing for the Times Literary Supplement said, "Sagas look like novels superficially, in their size and layout and plain language, but making their narratives into novels is a trick which has proved beyond most who have tried it. Janoda's Saga provides a model of how to do it: pick out the hidden currents, imagine how they would seem to peripheral characters, and as with all historical novels, load the narrative with period detail drawn from the scholars. No better saga adaptation has been yet written."

Author : Marianne E. Kalinke
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786830685

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Stories Set Forth with Fair Words by Marianne E. Kalinke Pdf

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland. The narrative type arose from the introduction of French narratives into the alien literary environment of Iceland and the acculturation of the import to indigenous literary traditions. The study focuses on the oldest Icelandic copies of three chansons de geste and four of the earliest indigenous romances, both types transmitted in an Icelandic codex from around 1300. The impact of the translated epic poems on the origin and development of the Icelandic romances was considerable, yet they have been largely neglected by scholars in favour of the courtly romances. This study attests the role played by the epic poems in the composition of romance in Iceland, which introduced the motifs of the aggressive female wooer and of Christian-heathen conflict.

Author : Jesse L. Byock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520341012

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Feud in the Icelandic Saga by Jesse L. Byock Pdf

Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict—is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought.

Author : Carol J. Clover
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501740510

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The Medieval Saga by Carol J. Clover Pdf

Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland—the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas passed down by word of mouth. How did they become the long and polished literary works that are still read today? The evolution of the written sagas is commonly regarded as an anomalous phenomenon, distinct from contemporary developments in European literature. In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in Iceland directly to the rise of imaginative prose on the Continent. Analyzing the narrative structure and composition of the sagas and comparing them with other medieval works, Clover shows that the Icelandic authors, using Continental models, owe the prose form of their writings, as well as some basic narrative strategies, to Latin historiography and to French romance.

Author : Jane Smilely
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141933269

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The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smilely Pdf

In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as the long ships did from home, the Sagas are written with psychological intensity, peopled by characters with depth, and explore perennial human issues like love, hate, fate and freedom.

Author : Rory McTurk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405137386

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A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture by Rory McTurk Pdf

This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culturedemonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language andculture from medieval to modern times. Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in thefield Reflects current debates among Old Norse-Icelandicscholars Pays attention to previously neglected areas of study, such asthe sagas of Icelandic bishops and the fantasy sagas Looks at the ways Old Norse-Icelandic literature is used bymodern writers, artists and film directors, both within and outsideScandinavia Sets Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature in its widercultural context

Author : Knut Liestol
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0331838397

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The Origin of the Icelandic Family Sagas (Classic Reprint) by Knut Liestol Pdf

Excerpt from The Origin of the Icelandic Family Sagas It would lead us too far afield, were I to enter fully into the subject of family tradition as a whole. For our present purpose we must try to ascertain what qualifications the Icelandic settlers had for developing an art of saga-telling; and here we naturally begin by looking for evidence of family traditions and an art of story-telling among the ancient Teutons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thomas Bredsdorff
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8772895705

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Chaos & Love by Thomas Bredsdorff Pdf

Bredsdorff (Scandinavian literature, U. of Copenhagen) analyzes the Icelandic family sagas as literature. He argues that the significant recurring pattern of events in the sagas is one of clashes brought about by the intersection of the code of honor and bloodfeud with people's sexual drives; he says, "The two combined set the catastrophe in motion." The volume is not indexed. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Oren Falk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192635570

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Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland by Oren Falk Pdf

Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk. Analysing violence in instrumental terms, as an attempt to coerce others, focuses on power. Analysing it in symbolic terms, as an attempt to communicate meanings, focuses on signification. Finally, analysing it in cognitive terms, as an attempt to exercise agency despite imperfect control over circumstances, focuses on risk. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland explores a place and time notorious for its rampant violence. Iceland's famous sagas hold treasure troves of circumstantial data, ideally suited for past-tense ethnography, yet demand that the reader come up with subtle and innovative methodologies for recovering histories from their stories. The sagas throw into sharp relief the kinds of analytic insights we obtain through cultural interpretation, offering lessons that apply to other epochs too.

Author : Robert Scholes,James Phelan,Robert Leland Kellogg
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195151755

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The Nature of Narrative by Robert Scholes,James Phelan,Robert Leland Kellogg Pdf

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been an essential work for students of literature, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg offered a compelling history of narrative from antiquity to the twentieth century. Their main goal was to describe and analyze the nature of narrative's key elements: meaning, character, plot, and point of view. The Fortieth Anniversary Edition of this groundbreaking work has been revised and expanded to include a new preface and a lengthy chapter by James Phelan on developments in narrative theory since 1966. This new material describes the principles and practices of structuralist, cognitive, feminist, and rhetorical approaches to narrative, paying special attention to their work on character, plot, and narrative discourse. A continued leader in the field of narrative studies, The Nature of Narrative offers unique and invaluable histories of both narrative and narrative theory.

Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139492645

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The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga by Margaret Clunies Ross Pdf

The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the Old Norse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, the Introduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages with current debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.

Author : John Hines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000161083

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Land, Sea and Home by John Hines Pdf

This book provides a realistic historical and geographical perspective to begin closest to the Scandinavian homelands of Vikings and the Viking ideology and material culture, by looking at new research into aspects of their use of the sea, maritime communications and trade.