Monsters in Society
Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland
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book explores the literary construction and cultural use of social monstrosity
in the Sagas of Icelanders.
Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstrosity – it only means that monstrosity is conceived of differently. This book shifts the view of monstrosity from the physical to the social, accounting for the unique social circumstances presented in the Íslendingasögur and demonstrating how closely interwoven the social and the monstrous are in this genre. Employing literary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historical approaches, it reads the monsters of the Íslendingasögur in their literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are not distractions from feud and conflict, but that they are in fact an intrinsic part of the genre’s re-imagining of the past for the needs of the present.
book explores the literary construction and cultural use of social monstrosity
in the Sagas of Icelanders.
Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstrosity – it only means that monstrosity is conceived of differently. This book shifts the view of monstrosity from the physical to the social, accounting for the unique social circumstances presented in the Íslendingasögur and demonstrating how closely interwoven the social and the monstrous are in this genre. Employing literary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historical approaches, it reads the monsters of the Íslendingasögur in their literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are not distractions from feud and conflict, but that they are in fact an intrinsic part of the genre’s re-imagining of the past for the needs of the present.
Rebecca Merkelbach, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Acknowledgements
1. Monsters in Context
2. Revenants Reconsidered
3. Between Hero and Monster – Outlaws
4. Nature and Nurture – Berserkir
5. Walkers Between Worlds – Practitioners of Magic
6. The Social Perception of Monstrosity
7. Reading Monstrosity
Conclusion: Writing a Monstrous Past
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.08.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 496 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Isländersagas • Mittelalterliches Island • Monsterstudien • Monstrum • Sagen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5015-1836-4 / 1501518364 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5015-1836-2 / 9781501518362 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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