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For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal
work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars.
Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of
literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in
the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre
narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they
carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature
of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point
of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary
narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it
included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an
appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts.
For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal
work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars.
Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of
literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in
the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre
narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they
carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature
of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point
of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary
narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it
included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an
appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts.
Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. Texts that were written in Iceland during this period include Njal's Saga, Egil's Saga, The Vinland Sagas, as well as the Comic Sagas and Tales collected in this volume. Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the finest comic stories from medieval Iceland. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains and avenging sons do battle with axes, words and cunning. The tales, meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages and religious conversions in Iceland and beyond. Shaped by Iceland's oral culture and their conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humour and stylistic innovation. In the introduction to these new translations, Vidar Hreinsson examines how the stories satirised old-style sagas while exploiting their classic themes of quests and revenge. This edition also includes a map, glossary, index of characters, suggested further reading and notes.
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