The Poetic Edda : Essays on Old Norse Mythology
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Garland Medieval Casebooks
ISBN-10
0815316607
ISBN-13
9780815316602
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 8th, 2002
Print length
308 Pages
Weight
522 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalLiterary studies: poetry & poets
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This unique collection of essays introduces significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda - a principal source for Old Norse cosmology and the legends of Odin, Loki and Thor.
This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.
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