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Tools of literacy the role of skaldic verse in Icelandic textual culture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries /

"Tools of Literacy is a thorough, ground-breaking examination of skaldic verse or drottkvaett, Icelandic literary production in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and of the textual culture that nurtured the poets. Gudrun Nordal demonstrates the connection between skaldic verse and the forma...

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Основен автор: Gu©ʻrun Nordal.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ℗♭2001.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=468658
Подобни документи: Print version:: Tools of literacy.
Съдържание:
  • Skaldic Verse and Learning
  • The Twelfth Century
  • Drottkvaett and the study of grammatica
  • The grammatical literature
  • Hattalykill
  • A twelfth-century poet: Bishop Kloeingr Porsteinsson
  • Snorra Edda and the Study of Grammatica
  • Manuscript textuality
  • The medieval codices of Snorra Edda
  • The manuscripts of Snorra Edda and the grammatical literature
  • The Sources and the Thirteenth-Century Poet
  • Sources of Skaldic Verse
  • Textbooks and treatises
  • Translations from Latin
  • A saint's life
  • Historical writing
  • The Poet's Profession
  • Professional poets
  • Aristocratic poets in Iceland
  • Clerics as poets
  • Excursus: The Thirteenth-Century Poet
  • Unknown thirteenth-century poets listed in both versions of Skaldatal and their patrons
  • Twelfth-century poets in Sturlunga saga
  • Known thirteenth-century poets
  • Theory and Practice in Skaldic Poetics
  • Theoretical Discussion of the Kenning
  • The Kenning in vernacular literary theory
  • The fusion of vernacular and Latin traditions
  • The Kenning in grammatica
  • Categories of meaning in Skaldskaparmal and Litla Skalda
  • Pulur
  • Theory and Practice in Skaldic Verse
  • The Poetic treatises
  • The human body dismembered in skaldic diction
  • Sources of Inspiration
  • Cosmology, Learning, and Body Imagery
  • Neoplatonist ideas and the world-body
  • Ymir's body in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning
  • The poetic landscape in body imagery
  • Cosmological imagery
  • Natural landscape
  • Flora
  • The human body
  • Digging for Gold in Skaldic Verse.