An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders【電子書籍】[ Carl Phelpstead ]

＜p＞Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, ＜em＞An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders＜/em＞ provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Phelpstead explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism. He then presents readings of select individual sagas, pointing out how the genre’s various source tr．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る