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The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology

The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology

Larrington, Carolyne
Acker, Paul

Paperback

Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0415653851
ISBN13: 9780415653855
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 28 2013
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. The volume also provides very useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new theoretical approaches (feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist) to each of the major poems, this book yields a variety of powerful and convincing readings. Contributors to the collection are both young scholars and senior figures in the discipline, and are of varying nationalities (American, British, Australian, Scandinavian, and Icelandic), thus ensuring a range of interpretations from different corners of the scholarly community. The new translations included here make available for the first time to English speaking students the intriguing methodologies that are currently developing in Scandinavia. An essential collection of scholarship for any Old Norse course, The Poetic Edda will also be of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.

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