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Bookish Riddarasoegur

Name: Bookish Riddarasoegur
Brand: University Press of Southern Denmark
SKU: 9788776747916
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Writing Romance in Late Mediaeval Iceland

Autor: Emerita Geraldine Barnes

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: University Press of Southern Denmark

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This book deals with a fascinating but until recently largely neglected area of late medieval Icelan...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Emerita Geraldine Barnes

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2022

strony

211

EAN

9788776747916

ISBN

9788776747916

Enbook ID

06425791

Wydawca

University Press of Southern Denmark

Waga

410

Wymiary

224 x 152 x 18

Pełny opis

This book deals with a fascinating but until recently largely neglected area of late medieval Icelandic literature: the indigenous prose romances, generally known as riddarasögur (lit. sagas of knights), a group of some 30 sagas composed in Iceland from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century onwards which take place in an exotic (non-Scandinavian), vaguely chivalric milieu and are characterized by the extensive use of foreign motifs and a strong supernatural or fabulous element. The author, Geraldine Barnes, former Professor of English Language and Early English Literature at the University of Sydney, has written extensively on the riddarasögur throughout her long career. This book represents the culmination of her work in this area and presents an interesting take'' on the riddarasögur, focusing on their learned or bookish'' elements. Although the riddarasögur are clearly modelled on Continental chivalric romances and influenced by the translated'' riddarasögur in terms of subject matter, style and ethos, that debt tends to be limited largely to the surface attributes of romance typically, princes on quests in exotic foreign lands which ultimately bring material rewards, noble brides and the acquisition of new kingdoms. Contrary to European chivalric romance, however, the Icelandic riddarasögur manifest a substantial debt to medieval encyclopedic and historiographical traditions. One effect of this is to bring an element of biculturalism'' to the textual landscapes of the riddarasögur which suggests that their authors, and, by implication, their audiences, were familiar with both learned tradition and traditional lore and accustomed to moving back and forth between them in creative literary composition.