"The volume showcases a selection of papers presented at the 23rd International Medieval Congress in Leeds in 2017"--Page 9. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Section III The Man Who Seemed Like a Troll: Racism in Old Norse Literature / Categorizing the Werewolf; or, the Peopleness of Shapeshifters / Arngrimur Vidalin. Taming the Wolf: Reading Bisclaret in Light of Old Norse Kennings / Minjie Su -- Between Myths and Legends: The Guises of Godmundr of Glaesisvellir / Jonathan Y. H. Hui -- Section II Rogue Sagas -- "The coarsest and worst of the Islendinga Sagas': Approaching the Alterity of the `Post-Classical' Sagas of Icelanders / Rebecca Merkelbach -- Considering Otherness on the Page: How Do Lacunae Affect the Way We Interact with Saga Narrative? / Joanne Shortt Butler -- Section III Marginality and Interconnectedness -- Surface, Rupture, and Contextual ties: Conflicting Voices of the Iberian `Other/s' in Old Norse Literature / Roderick W. McDonald -- Otherness along the Austrvegr: Cultural Interaction between the Run' and the Turkic Nomads of the Steppe / Csete Katona -- The Man Who Seemed Like a Troll: Racism in Old Norse Literature / Arngrimur Vidalin.
Summary:
"Medieval Icelandic literature has often been reduced to the supposedly realist Íslendingasögur and their main protagonists at the expense of other genres and characters. Indeed, such a focus obscures and erases the importance of those beings and narratives that move on the margins of mainstream culture - whether socially, ethnically, ontologically, or textually. This volume aims to offer a new perspective on a variety of theoretical and comparative approaches to explore depictions of alterity, monstrosity, and deviation. Engaging with the interplay of genre, character, text, and culture, and exploring questions of behavioural, socio-cultural, and textual alterity, these contributions examine subjects ranging from the study of fragmented and "Othered" saga narratives, to attitudes towards foreign people and lands, and alterities in mythological and legendary texts. Together the papers effectively challenge long-held perceptions about the lack of ambiguity in medieval Icelandic literature, and offer a far more nuanced understanding of the importance of the 'Other' in that society."--Back cover.
Series:
The North Atlantic World : land and sea as cultural space, AD 400-1900 ; volume 3
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