95 records matched your query
03115aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 1BEAAA86F5D511E7B33F7C0497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180110010212 008 160624t20172017enkj b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0198793030 020 $a 9780198793038 035 $a (OCoLC)952182504 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d YDXCP $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BTCTA $d EMI $d OCL $d BDX $d NYP $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 $a eng $h non 050 4 $a PT7269.H9 $b M55 2017 082 04 $a 800 100 1 $a Miller, William Ian, $d 1946- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87874578 245 10 $a Hrafnkel or the ambiguities : $b hard cases, hard choices / $c William Ian Miller. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xv, 257 pages : $b 1 genealogical table ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index. 546 $a Includes text of Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða, translated from manuscript AÌM 156, fol. into English. 520 8 $a William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. 'Hrafnkel' tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex issues with finely layered irony: who can one justifiably hit, when, and by what means? It does this with cool nuance, also taking on matters of torture and pain-infliction as a means of generating fellow-feeling. How does one measure pain and humiliation so as to get even, to get back to equal? People are forced to set prices on things we tell ourselves soporifically are priceless, such as esteem, dignity, life itself. Morality no less than legal remedy involves price-setting. This book flies in the face of all the previous critical literature which, with very few exceptions, imposes simplistic readings on the saga. A translation of the saga is provided as an appendix. 630 00 $a Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91036241 630 07 $a Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356972 650 0 $a Sagas $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111140 650 0 $a Revenge in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113421 650 0 $a Honor in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061885 650 0 $a Law in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075309 650 7 $a Revenge in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01096484 650 7 $a Honor in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960014 650 7 $a Law in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994014 650 7 $a Sagas. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01103425 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 730 02 $a Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða. $l English. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180110043427.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1BEAAA86F5D511E7B33F7C0497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search