Egil, the Viking Poet

New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
Herausgeber: De Looze, Laurence; Tulinius, Torfi H; Poole, Russell; Helgason, Jon Karl

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Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781442649699
• ISBN-10: 1442649690
• Artikelnr.: 41855929

Autorenporträt

Edited by Laurence de Looze, Jón Karl Helgason, Russell Poole, and Torfi H. Tulinius

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Egil, The Viking Poet: New Approaches to Egil’s Saga
(Russell Poole)
COMPOSITION
2. The Construction of Egil’s Saga (Torfi H. Tulinius)
3. Ars metrica and the Composition of Egil’s Saga (Guðrún Nordal)
IDENTITY
4. The Concept of the Self in Egil’s Saga: A Ricoeurean Approach (Laurence
de Looze)
5. Self-description in Egil’s Poetry (Margaret Clunies Ross)
EMOTIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
6. Emotions and Moral Issues in a Dysfunctional Saga Family (Ármann
Jakobsson)
7. Elegy and Old Age in Egil’s Saga (Alison Finlay)
8. *Konutorrek: A Husband’s Lament (Oren Falk)
9. Facebook for Vikings: Social Network Analysis and Egil’s Saga (Timothy
R. Tangherlini)
RECEPTION
10. Egil Strikes Again: Textual Variation and the Seventeenth-Century
Reworkings of Egil’s Saga (Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir)
11. Bloody Runes: The Transgressive Poetics of Egil’s Saga (Jón Karl
Helgason)
12. A Selected Bibliography from the Online Annotated Bibliography of
Egil’s Saga (Álfdís Þorleifsdóttir, Katelin Parsons, and Jane Appleton)