Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry

Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry / Brittany Erin Schorn.

While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schorn, Brittany Erin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
Series:Trends in medieval philology ; 34.
Subjects:
Eddas > History and criticism.
Old Norse poetry > History and criticism.
Wisdom in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Eddas
Old Norse poetry
Wisdom in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • 1. Introduction: a Word to the Wise
  • 2. Gáttir allar, áðr gangi fram, um scoðask scyli: Approaching Wisdom in Eddic Poetry
  • 3. Mankind and the Supernatural World in Eddic Wisdom Verse
  • 4. Speaker and Situation in the Mythological Frames of Wisdom Poetry
  • 5. Traditional Forms and Christian Authority
  • 6. The Authority of Wisdom
  • 7. Abbreviations
  • 8. Bibliography
  • 9. Index.

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