The Laxdla Saga: Its Structural Patterns: 74 (University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature) - Softcover

A. Margaret Arent Madelung (author)

 
9781469657844: The Laxdla Saga: Its Structural Patterns: 74 (University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature)
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ISBN 10: 1469657848 ISBN 13: 9781469657844
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020

Synopsis

This study is an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following the publication of her translation of the LaxdŒla Saga, in this volume Madelung uses her deep knowledge of the text to demonstrate the literary quality and aesthetic structure of the work, especially the function of repetition. She shows that the Saga contains a historical-political analogy between the period in which the story is set (the eleventh century) and the saga-author's own time two centuries later. The apparently straightforward prose is camouflage, and the symbolism provides the key to the hidden analogy.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1469657848
ISBN 13 
9781469657844
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
280

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