Egil, the Viking poet : new approaches to Egil's saga /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Description:	vi, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic series ; 9 Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ; 9.
Subject:	Snorri Sturluson, -- 1179?-1241. -- Egils saga. Egils saga (Snorri Sturluson) Sagas -- History and criticism. Sagas. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10424448

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Other authors / contributors:	Poole, Russell Gilbert, editor. De Looze, Laurence, author, editor. Jón Karl Helgason, 1965- author, editor. Torfi H. Tulinius, 1958- author, editor.
ISBN:	9781442649699 1442649690
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Egil, The Viking Poet: New Approaches to Egil's Saga
Composition
2. The Construction of Egil's Saga
3. Ars metrica and the Composition of Egil's Saga
Identity
4. The Concept of the Self in Egil's Saga: A Ricoeurean Approach
5. Self-Description in Egil's Poetry
Emotions and Affiliations
6. Thorolf's Choice: Family and Goodness in Egil's Saga, Ch. 40
7. Elegy and Old Age in Egil's Saga
8. &ast;Konntorrek: A Husband's Lament
9. Facebook for Vikings: Social Network Analysis and Egil's Saga
Reception
10. Egil Strikes Again: Textual Variation and the Seventeenth-Century Reworkings of Egil's Saga
11. Bloody Runes: The Transgressive Poetics of Egil's Saga
12. A Selected Bibliography from the Online Annotated Bibliography of Egil's Saga
Contributors
Index

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