Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney)

The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is designed for students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780521735209
• ISBN-10: 0521735203
• Artikelnr.: 31193476

Autorenporträt

Margaret Clunies Ross is Emeritus Professor of English and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

A preface on practical issues; Glossary of technical terms; 1. Medieval Iceland; 2. What is an Old Norse-Icelandic saga?; 3. The genesis of the Icelandic saga; 4. Saga chronology; 5. Saga subjects and settings; 6. Saga mode, style and point of view; 7. Saga structures; 8. The material record: how we know the sagas; 9. Changing understandings of the sagas; Guide to further reading; Index.

Rezensionen

'Clunies Ross manages to provide just the sort of introduction to the sagas that any teacher of Old Norse (among those whose interest in the subject transcends the merely linguistic, at least) would wish their students to read, in a compact, accessible and attractively priced volume.' Saga-Book