How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-89974-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

This booksets out to answer why genre matters when analysing sagas, medieval literature, and creation in general.  applies theoretical observations on the workings of genre to saga literature analysis, including media and film genre theory, as well as observations from reader-response theory. The text primarily focuses on a group of prose or prosimetric texts that concern the medieval Norse world, usually taking place in the period between the end of the ninth and the mid-eleventh centuries and focusing on Iceland. Tirosh proposes new interpretations to several sagas, but more importantly provides a fresh perspective on the importance and application of genre theory to medieval literary studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tirosh, Yoav

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Genre Governs.- Chapter 2: The Íslendingasögur as a Genre.- Chapter 3: Towards a History of the Sagas.- Chapter 4: Genre as Analytic Tool – Hreiðars þáttr, Ljósvetninga saga and Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings as Case Studies.

Über Autor(innen)

Yoav Tirosh is an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department for Scandinavian Studies and Experience Economy at Aarhus University, Denmark.