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A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre (Norse, Old, Hardcover)
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A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre (Norse, Old, Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
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A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.
We cannot read literary works without making use of the concept of
genre. In Old Norse studies, genre has been central to the
categorisation, evaluation and understanding of medieval prose and
poetry alike; yet its definition has been elusive and its
implications often left unexplored. This volume opens up
fundamental questions about Old Norse genre in theory and in
practice. It offers an extensive range of theoretical approaches,
investigating and critiquing current terms and situating its
arguments within early Scandinavian and Icelandic oral-literary and
manuscript contexts. It maps the ways in which genre and form
engage with key thematic areas within the literary corpus,noting
the different kinds of impact upon the genre system brought about
by conversion to Christianity, the gradual adoption of European
literary models, and social and cultural changes occurring in
Scandinavian society. A case-study section probes both prototypical
and hard-to-define cases, demonstrating the challenges that actual
texts pose to genre theory in terms of hybridity, evolution and
innovation. With an annotated taxonomy of Old Norse genres and an
extensive bibliography, it is an indispensable resource for
contemporary Old Norse-Icelandic literary studies.
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