عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PT7235
PT7235
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1136227873
(Number (ISBN
9781136227875
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Revisiting the Poetic Edda.
General Material Designation
[Book]
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Hoboken :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Taylor and Francis,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (295 pages)
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revisiting the Poetic Edda; Introduction to Chapter 1; 1 Heroic Homosociality and Homophobia in the Helgi Poems; Introduction to Chapters 2 and 3; 2 Sigurðr, A Medieval Hero: A Manuscript-Based Interpretation of the "Young Sigurðr Poems"; 3 Dragons in the Eddas and in Early Nordic Art; Introduction to Chapters 4, 5 and 6; 4 Elegy in Eddic Poetry: Its Origin and Context; 5 Guðrúnarkviða in fyrsta: Guðrún's Healing Tears; 6 "Gerðit hon ... sem konor aðrar": Women and Subversion in Eddic Heroic Poetry.
Text of Note
Introduction to Chapter 77 "I Have Long Desired to Cure You of Old Age": Sibling Drama in the Later Heroic Poems of the Edda; Introduction to Chapter 8; 8 Mythological Motivation in Eddic Heroic Poetry: Interpreting Grottasöngr; 9 The Eddica minora: A Lesser Poetic Edda?; 10 Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda; 11 Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty; 12 Writing into the Gap: Tolkien's Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún; Contributors; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Fróði, whose name lives on in Tolkien's Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive ap.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Revisiting the Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend.
International Standard Book Number
9780415888615
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Edda Sæmundar.
Edda Sæmundar.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Eddas-- History and criticism.
Legends-- Scandinavia.
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
Old Norse poetry-- History and criticism.
Eddas.
Legends.
LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
Old Norse poetry.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Scandinavia.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
LIT-- 004170
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
839
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6/1009
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PT7235
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Acker, Paul,1952-
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Larrington, Carolyne.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200822155225.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
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ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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