Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9780823257836
ISBN-13 : 0823257835
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Book Synopsis Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond by : Martin Chase

Download or read book Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond written by Martin Chase and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with “medieval” characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant Reformation in Iceland (1550). This superb volume, rich in up-to-date scholarship, makes little-known material accessible to a wide audience.

An Anthropology of Puzzles

An Anthropology of Puzzles
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9781350089877
ISBN-13 : 1350089877
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis An Anthropology of Puzzles by : Marcel Danesi

Download or read book An Anthropology of Puzzles written by Marcel Danesi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from discoveries in mathematics to disquisitions in philosophy. Danesi examines the cognitive processes that are involved in puzzle making and solving, and connects them to the actual physical manifestations of classic puzzles. Building on a concept of puzzles as based on Jungian archetypes, such as the river crossing image, the path metaphor, and the journey, Danesi suggests this could be one way to understand the public fascination with puzzles. As well as drawing on underlying mental archetypes, the act of solving puzzles also provides an outlet to move beyond biological evolution, and Danesi shows that puzzles could be the product of the same basic neural mechanism that produces language and culture. Finally, Danesi explores how understanding puzzles can be a new way of understanding our human culture.

The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature

The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 474
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ISBN-10 : 9783110642377
ISBN-13 : 3110642379
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Book Synopsis The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature by : Mikael Males

Download or read book The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature written by Mikael Males and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary and intellectual experiments in the period. The book argues that this cannot simply be explained as a result of strong local traditions, as in most previous scholarship. Thus, for instance, the author demonstrates that the mix of prose and poetry found in kings’ sagas and sagas of Icelanders is roughly contemporary to the written sagas. Similarly, he argues that treatises on poetics and mythology, including Snorri’s Edda, are new to the period, not only in their textual form, but also in their systematic mode of analysis. The book contends that what is truly new in these texts is the method of the authors, derived from Latin learning, but applied to traditional forms and motifs as encapsulated in the skaldic tradition. In this way, Christian Latin learning allowed for its perceived opposite, vernacular oral literature of pagan extraction, to reach full fruition and to largely replace the very literature which had made this process possible in the first place.

The Saints in Old Norse and early Modern Icelandic Poetry

The Saints in Old Norse and early Modern Icelandic Poetry
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781487500740
ISBN-13 : 1487500742
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Saints in Old Norse and early Modern Icelandic Poetry by : Kirsten Wolf

Download or read book The Saints in Old Norse and early Modern Icelandic Poetry written by Kirsten Wolf and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.

Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland

Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9781843846116
ISBN-13 : 184384611X
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Book Synopsis Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland by : Stephen Pelle

Download or read book Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland written by Stephen Pelle and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.

Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III

Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9781000200119
ISBN-13 : 1000200116
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Book Synopsis Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III by : Wojtek Jezierski

Download or read book Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III written by Wojtek Jezierski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the practical and symbolic resources of legitimacy which the elites of medieval Scandinavia employed to establish, justify, and reproduce their social and political standing between the end of the Viking Age and the rise of kingdoms in the thirteenth century. Geographically the chapters cover the Scandinavian realms and Free State Iceland. Thematically the authors cover a wide palette of cultural practices and historical sources: hagiography, historiography, spaces and palaces, literature, and international connections, which rulers, magnates or ecclesiastics used to compete for status and to reserve haloing glory for themselves. The volume is divided in three sections. The first looks at the sacral, legal, and acclamatory means through which privilege was conferred onto kings and ruling families. Section Two explores the spaces such as aristocratic halls, palaces, churches in which the social elevation of elites took place. Section Three explores the traditional and novel means of domestic distinction and international cultural capital which different orders of elites – knights, powerful clerics, ruling families etc. – wrought to assure their dominance and set themselves apart vis-à-vis their peers and subjects. A concluding chapter discusses how the use of symbolic capital in the North compared to wider European contexts.

A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages

A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9789004329645
ISBN-13 : 9004329641
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Download or read book A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical book of Job is a timeless text that relates a story of intense human suffering, abandonment, and eventual redemption. It is a tale of profound theological, philosophical, and existential significance that has captured the imaginations of auditors, exegetes, artists, religious leaders, poets, preachers, and teachers throughout the centuries. This original volume provides an introduction to the wide range of interpretations and representations of Job—both the scriptural book and its righteous protagonist—produced in the medieval Christian West. The essays gathered here treat not only exegetical and theological works such as Gregory’s Moralia and the literal commentaries of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyra, but also poetry and works of art that have Job as their subject.