Book: The Poetic Edda: Essays On Old Norse Mythology 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 alsobe of interest to scholars of Indo-European myth, as well as those who study the theory of myth.
Details of Book: The Poetic Edda: Essays On Old Norse Mythology Book: The Poetic Edda: Essays On Old Norse Mythology
Author: Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington
ISBN: 0815316607
ISBN-13: 9780815316602
, 978-0815316602
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 00000000
Publisher: Routledge
Number of Pages: 308
Language: English