{"product_id":"an-introduction-to-the-sagas-of-icelanders-9780813066516","title":"An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn essential resource for exploring the early literary genre of Icelandic saga narratives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, \u003cem\u003eAn Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre \u003cbr\u003ethat has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two \u003cbr\u003ecenturies. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary \u003cbr\u003etheory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga \u003cbr\u003enarratives about the island's early history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhelpstead\u003cbr\u003e explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating \u003cbr\u003ethe rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew\u003cbr\u003e on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed \u003cbr\u003ediscussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and \u003cbr\u003esexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old \u003cbr\u003eNorse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, \u003cbr\u003efeminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism. He then presents readings \u003cbr\u003eof select individual sagas, pointing out how the genre's various source \u003cbr\u003etraditions and thematic concerns interact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding an\u003cbr\u003e overview of the history of English translations that shows how they \u003cbr\u003ehave been stimulated and shaped by ideas about identity, and featuring a\u003cbr\u003e glossary of critical terms, this book is an essential resource for \u003cbr\u003estudents of the literary form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA\u003cbr\u003e volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors \u003cbr\u003eand Traditions, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhelpstead, Carl:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eCarl Phelpstead\u003c\/b\u003e, professor of English literature at Cardiff University in Wales, is the author of \u003ci\u003eHoly Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50368963674386,"sku":"9780813066516","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4e24a2b2-45f8-4af0-9611-50df11f4dfd7.jpg?v=1728517462","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-introduction-to-the-sagas-of-icelanders-9780813066516","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}