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  • Du sollst nicht ... auf Waljagd gehen! Das Tabu im 'Fischzugs'-Mythos in 'Hymiskvida' und 'Gylfaginning'

    by Petra Rodloff ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Skandinavien und Island, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Nordeuropa-Insitut), Veranstaltung: Holz, Stein, Pergament - Mediävistische Quellen und Arbeitsweisen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorherrschende Meinung, dass die Isländer im Mittelalter keinen aktiven Walfang betrieben, soll hier nicht bestritten werden. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Altnordisch 1

    Die Sprache der Wikinger, Runen und isländischen Sagas

    by Jesse Byock ...
    Series Book 5 - Viking Language Old Norse Icelandic
    Altnordisch 1. Die Sprache der Wikinger, Runen und isländischen Sagas dreht sich alles um die in der skandinavischen Wikingerzeit und im isländischen Mittelalter gesprochene altnordische Sprache. Außerdem bietet es einen Einblick in die Lebensweise und die kulturellen Errungenschaften der damals im Norden Europas lebenden und/oder über die Weltmeere segelnden Menschen. Das buch besteht aus ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Doll's House

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    A Doll's House (Danish and Bokmål: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879. The play concerns the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked ... Read more

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  • Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders

    Series Book 11 - Studies in Old Norse Literature
    First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed.Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

    The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities.The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Il romanzo poliziesco contemporaneo tra tensione morale e impegno sociale

    by Dina Lentini ...
    Saggi - saggio (227 pagine) - Saggi su Maj Sjöwall e Per Wahlöö, Anne Perry, Claude Izzo, Alicia Gimenéz Bartlett, Qiu Xiaolong, Moussa KonatéLa storia del romanzo giallo ha seguito la storia dello sviluppo della società borghese, e con essa si è evoluta a partire dai classici fra `800 e `900, fino alla dilagante serie di opere contemporanee che hanno invaso il mercato librario internazionale ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders

    Homegrown Stereotypes and Foreign Influences

    This book explores accounts in the Sagas of Icelanders of encounters with foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, who are portrayed according to stereotypes which vary depending on their origins. Notably, inhabitants of the places identified in the sagas as Írland, Skotland and Vínland are portrayed as being less civilized than the Icelanders themselves. This book explores the ways in which ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard's Writings

    Edited by Joseph Westfall ...
    Authorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard's work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself in On My Work as an Author. From the use of multiple pseudonyms and antonyms, to contributions across a spectrum of media and genres, issues of authorship abound.Why did Kierkegaard write in the ways he did? Before we assess Kierkegaard's famous thoughts on faith or ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (The Annotated Books)

    Series Book 0 - The Annotated Books
    A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars.In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark's "perfect wizard" and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. Andersen's most beloved tales, such as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Le Jutland dans l'oeuvre de Steen Steensen Blicher

    Series series Fonds ancien UCBN
    Après plusieurs siècles d'oubli, le Jutland des chansons populaires du Moyen Âge, avec ses paysages sauvages et ses habitants énergiques, prend une place de choix dans la littérature danoise grâce à Blicher. Suivant son exemple, toute une lignée d'écrivains comptant parmi les plus importants du Danemark, chanteront le Jutland, leur pays natal : Holger Drachmann, Jakob Knudsen, Johan Skjoldborg, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Nidrstigningar Saga

    Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”

    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • From Iceland to the Americas

    Vinland and historical imagination

    by James Paz ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Henrik Ibsen

    “G. Wilson Knight approaches Ibsen in substantially the same way he approaches Shakespeare. By weaving a fabric of countless quotations from the plays, he attempts primarily to reconstruct Ibsen’s vision rather than to judge it. What emerges most clearly from his examination are Ibsen’s dominant themes. Knight sees Ibsen’s ‘emphasis on vocation, on the instinctive will, forcing persons to self ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Drama From Ibsen To Brecht

    With typical critical flair, Raymond Williams examines the development of the dramatic form from Henrik Ibsen to Bertolt Brecht. Taking an expansive view of drama from around the world, he offers the reader profound insights into the role of theatre in society and into the workings of dramatic language. This is seminal reading for theatre-goers and literature students alike. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Danish Literature as World Literature

    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    Despite being a minor language, Danish literature is one of the world's most actively translated, and the Scandinavian country is the home of a number of significant writers. Hans Christian Andersen remains one of the most translated authors in the world, philosopher Søren Kierkegaard inspired modern Existentialism, Karen Blixen chronicled her life in colonial Kenya as well as writing imaginary, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Les Quatre littératures slaves

    “ Plus qu’aucune autre race en Europe, la famille des peuples slaves a reçu de Dieu un tempérament conservateur et ennemi des révolutions. A travers toutes les époques successives de son développement, depuis les premiers temps jusqu’à ce jour, nous voyons le génie slave, toujours pressé du besoin de concilier les extrêmes, toujours avide à la fois de conservation et de progrès, se jeter comme ... Read more

    $3.87 USD

  • The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

    Presenting the Past

    by Susan Brantly ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
    This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Écritures fantastiques allemandes

    Series series Lettres et civilisations étrangères
    Les spectres, plaisantait Henri Heine, ont décidément quelque chose d’allemand. Doit-on pour autant en conclure qu’il existe une littérature fantastique allemande spécifique ? Le présent recueil rassemble un certain nombre d’études censées à la fois délimiter un territoire et proposer quelques repères chronologiques. Les moments distingués – L’héritage hoffmannien ; Entre Décadence et fascisme ; L ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kurt Wallander und der Traum einer solidarischen Gesellschaft. Sozialkritik in den Kriminalromanen 'Mördare utan ansikte' und 'Brandvägg' von Henning Mankell

    by Hannes Hofer ...
    Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Skandinavien und Island, Note: 1,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Deutsches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Textes stehen die Gesellschafts- und Sozialkritik des schwedischen Autors Henning Mankell in den Kriminalromanen über den schwedischen Kommissar Kurt Wallander. Mankells ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Viking Mediologies

    A New History of Skaldic Poetics

    by Kate Heslop ...
    Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
    Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship—distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop reconsiders these not as texts but as pieces in a pre-modern ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Asgard Stories

    Tales from Norse Mythology

    Travel through Norse mythology with this collection of stories about the gods themselves. Written in 1901, this anthology contains stories such as The Story of the Beginning, Odin's Reward, The Hammer of Thor, and The Punishment of Loki. As the gods of Asgard continue to permeate pop culture, this book will send you back to the origin of these myths. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • The Nordic Model and Physical Culture

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book examines the relationships between the Nordic social democratic welfare system (‘The Nordic Model’) and physical culture, across the domains of sport, education, and public space.Presenting important new empirical research, it helps us to understand how the paradoxical blend of social democracy and liberalism in the Nordic countries influences physical culture, which in turn contributes ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Intermedial Ecocriticism

    The Climate Crisis Through Art and Media

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Climate Crisis Through Art and Media provides an extensive understanding of the climate crisis as it is represented in a number of medial forms, including scientific reports, popular science, graphic novels, documentaries, websites, feature films, and advertising. Theoretically, this is the first book that combines two important theories from the humanities: ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Chronicle of Duke Erik

    A Verse Epic from Medieval Sweden

    Written in the 14th century and enjoying a Swedish national status similar to the English Beowulf, this fascinating tale with many levels of meaning reflects the ideals of politics and aesthetics typical of the age of chivalry. The rhyming verses are accompanied by prose renditions and commentary, making the work enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in medieval texts. A valuable source ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus