Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative

Name: Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative
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ISBN: 9780199267323

ISBN-10: 0199267324

ISBN-13: 9780199267323

Edition: 2005

Authors: Heather O'Donoghue

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Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects. In sagas, there is a fundamental distinction between verses which areostensibly quoted to corroborate what is stated in the narrative, and verses which are presented as the speech of characters in the saga. Corroborative verses are typical of-but not confined to-historical writings, the verses…

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List price: $185.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/13/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.78" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English




The Role of Verses in Norse Historical Works



The Community and the Individual in Eyrbyggja saga



Speech, Silence, and Subjectivity in Gisla saga



Grettis saga and the Fictionalization of Biography


Epilogue: Hrafnkels saga and the Hero without Verse