This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance.
The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts across Europe. This study also engages with the challenge of reconstructing medieval performance styles and examines ways of applying the modern discipline of Performance Studies to the fragmentary corpus of Old Norse verse. The performance of verse by characters who appear in the Old Icelandic saga tradition is also considered, as is the cultural value associated not only with the poems themselves but with their various means of transmission and reception.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of Old Norse studies, Performance and Theatre History.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Illustrationen
19 s/w Abbildungen, 19 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
19 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-367-40830-5 (9780367408305)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Brian McMahon is an Associate Lecturer in English at Oxford Brookes University and Artistic Director at Reverend Productions.
Annemari Ferreira is Assistant Professor of English as a Foreign Language and Writing Centre Coordinator at SolBridge International School of Business, Woosong University, South Korea. She holds a research fellowship at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction by Terry Gunnell
Part 1: The Social Dynamics of Performance
Chapter 1: Framing Old Norse Performance Contexts: The Wedding at Reykjaholar (1119) Revisited by Stephen A. Mitchell
Part 2: Voice and Performance
Chapter 2: Revisiting Zumthorian Vocality in Old Norse Poetry Studies by Ines Garcia Lopez
Chapter 3: ...me? skar?a skjoeldu ok skotnar brynjur: The Distribution and Function of Aural Sense Impressions in Old Norse Poetry by Simon Nygaard
Chapter 4: Dramatic Implications of Echoed Speech in Skirnismal by Harriet Soper
Part 3: Collocation and Quotation
Chapter 5: Eddic Poetry and the Uses of Anonymity by John McKinnell
Chapter 6: Accretive Quotation and the Performance of Stanzas in Fagrskinna by Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen
Part 4: Material Culture
Chapter 7: Old Norse Poetry in Visual Art: a Comparative Perspective with the Islamic World by Rebeca Franco Valle
Chapter 8: How the Hell Do You Read This? - The Evolution of Eddic Orality through Manuscript Performance by Frog
Part 5: Modern Approaches to Performing Old Norse Poetry
Chapter 9: Old Norse Poetry in Performance: Perils, Pitfalls and Possibilities by Brian McMahon
Chapter 10: Interview with Leif Stinnerbom
Chapter 11: Interview with Einar Selvik
Chapter 12: Beowulf, the Edda, and the Performance of Medieval Epic: Notes from the Workshop of a Reconstructed 'Singer of Tales' by Benjamin Bagby
Chapter 13: 'i? be?ta e? quae?e? fm? flutt': Kve?nar Drapur og Kve?nar Rimur by Petur Huni Bjoernsson
