The Cold Counsel

The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth
Herausgeber: Anderson, Sarah M.; Swenson, Karen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9781138991460
• ISBN-10: 1138991465
• Artikelnr.: 44316225

Autorenporträt

Sarah M. Anderson teaches in the Department of English at Princeton University, and Karen Swenson teaches at Virginia Tech University.

Inhaltsangabe

Women and Insults in Old Norse Literature
Zoe Borovsky Hildigunnr's Lament
Carol J. Clover Women's Voices in Old Norse Literature: The Case of Trójummana Saga
Randi Eldevik Taming the Shrew: The Rise of the Patriarchy and the Subjection of the Feminine in Old Norse Literature
Helga Kress The Re-emergence of Women's Voices in Icelandic Literature
Shaun F. D. Hughes Vikings Westward to Vínland: The Problem of Women
Jenny Jochens Gender
Class
and Discourse in Prymskvida
Jón Karl Helgason Fathers
Mothers
and Daughters
Marianne E. Kalinke A Good Day's Work: Laxdoela Saga
Ch. 49
Jonna Louis-Jensen Women's Counsel in the Riddarasögur: The Case of Parcevals Saga
F. Regina Psaki The Woman Who Knows: Female Characters of Eyrbyggja Saga
Forrest S. Scott Male Bonding
Female Body: The Absenting of Women in Bisclaretz liód
Kerry Shea Ambiguously Gendered: The Skalds Jórunn
Audr and Steinunn
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar Women Outside: Discourse of Community in Hávamál
Karen Swenson Saga World and Nineteenth-Century Iceland: The Case of Women Farmers
Tórunn Sigurdardóttir Contributors