• Women in Old Norse literature : bodies, words, and power
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: bodies, words, and power
    [NT 47261] Author: FridriksdottirJohanna Katrin, 1980-
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: New York, New York
    [NT 47263] Published: Palgrave Macmillan;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2013
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource.
    [NT 47298] Series: The new Middle Ages series
    [NT 47266] Subject: Old Norse literature - History and criticism. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Women in literature. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Goddesses in literature. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Mythology, Norse. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Women - Mythology. -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137118066An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
    [NT 47265] Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2010.
    [NT 51398] Summary: Old Norse texts offer many different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women who occupy diverse social and economic positions or who have varying racial origins. Covering a much wider range of texts than have previous studies, this book presents a comprehensive and ground-breaking analysis of women in Old Norse literature. Raising new, probing questions, generated by theoretical insights from comparative studies, and from feminist, queer, monster and speech act theory, �Jhanna Kat�rn Fr�iriks�dttir explores the many ways in which medieval Icelandic sagas construct the relationship between women and power. Illuminating the preoccupations, desires, and anxieties of the sagas' authors and audiences, this book offers excitingly fresh perspectives on how Icelandic prose genres mediate medieval attitudes to women, power, social organization, and ideal human behavior.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9781137118066electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 1137118067electronic bk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: Introduction Women speaking Women and magic Monstrous women Royal and aristocratic women The female ruler Conclusion.
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