Monsters, Heroes and Social Identity in Medieval Icelandic and English Literature

Monsters, Heroes and Social Identity in Medieval Icelandic and English Literature
Title Monsters, Heroes and Social Identity in Medieval Icelandic and English Literature PDF eBook
Author Janice Hawes
Publisher
Pages 498
Release 2004
Genre Beowulf
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Flesh and Word

Flesh and Word
Title Flesh and Word PDF eBook
Author Sarah Künzler
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 460
Release 2016-08-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110455870

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Bodies and their role in cultural discourse have been a constant focus in the humanities and social sciences in recent years, but comparatively few studies exist about Old Norse-Icelandic or early Irish literature. This study aims to redress this imbalance and presents carefully contextualised close readings of medieval texts. The chapters focus on the role of bodies in mediality discourse in various contexts: that of identity in relation to ideas about self and other, of inscribed and marked skin and of natural bodily matters such as defecation, urination and menstruation. By carefully discussing the sources in their cultural contexts, it becomes apparent that medieval Scandinavian and early Irish texts present their very own ideas about bodies and their role in structuring the narrated worlds of the texts. The study presents one of the first systematic examinations of bodies in these two literary traditions in terms of body criticism and emphasises the ingenuity and complexity of medieval texts.

Monsters in Society

Monsters in Society
Title Monsters in Society PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Merkelbach
Publisher Medieval Institute Publications
Pages 258
Release 2019-10-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781501518362

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Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstrosity - it only means that monstrosity is conceived of differently. This book shifts the view of monstrosity from the physical to the social, accounting for the unique social circumstances presented in the Íslendingasögur and demonstrating how closely interwoven the social and the monstrous are in this genre. Employing literary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historical approaches, it reads the monsters of the Íslendingasögur in their literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are not distractions from feud and conflict, but that they are in fact an intrinsic part of the genre's re-imagining of the past for the needs of the present.

The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters

The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters
Title The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher Routledge
Pages 558
Release 2016-04-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317044258

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From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly market. Over 200 entries written by experts in the field are accompanied by an overview introduction by the editor. Generic entries such as 'ghost' and 'vampire' are cross-listed with important specific manifestations of that monster. In addition to monsters appearing in English-language literature and film, the Encyclopedia also includes significant monsters in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, African and Middle Eastern traditions. Alphabetically organized, the entries each feature suggestions for further reading. The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters is an invaluable resource for all students and scholars and an essential addition to library reference shelves.

Dissertation Abstracts International

Dissertation Abstracts International
Title Dissertation Abstracts International PDF eBook
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Pages 468
Release 1983
Genre Dissertations, Academic
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Northern memories and the English Middle Ages

Northern memories and the English Middle Ages
Title Northern memories and the English Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Tim William Machan
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 256
Release 2020-05-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1526145375

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This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in something even broader. Protestant and fundamentally monarchical, the Nordic countries constituted a politically kindred spirit in contrast with France, Italy and Spain. Along with the so-called Celtic fringe and overseas colonies, Scandinavia became one of the external reference points for the forging of the United Kingdom. Subject to the continual refashioning of memory, the region became at once an image of Britain’s noble past and an affirmation of its current global status, rendering trips there rides on a time machine.

Medieval Iceland

Medieval Iceland
Title Medieval Iceland PDF eBook
Author Jesse L. Byock
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 280
Release 1990-02-07
Genre History
ISBN 9780520069541

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Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.