Anderson / Swenson The Cold Counsel

The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-82145-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten

Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Sarah M.

Swenson, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Women and Insults in Old Norse Literature, Zoe Borovsky

Hildigunnr's Lament,Carol J. Clover

Women's Voices in Old Norse Literature: The Case of Trójummana Saga, Randi Eldevik

Taming the Shrew: The Rise of the Patriarchy and the Subjection of the Feminine in Old Norse Literature, Helga Kress

The Re-emergence of Women's Voices in Icelandic Literature, Shaun F. D. Hughes

Vikings Westward to Vínland: The Problem of Women, Jenny Jochens

Gender, Class, and Discourse in Prymskvida, Jón Karl Helgason

Fathers, Mothers, and Daughters, Marianne E. Kalinke

A Good Day's Work: Laxdoela Saga, Ch. 49, Jonna Louis-Jensen

Women's Counsel in the Riddarasögur: The Case of Parcevals Saga, F. Regina Psaki

The Woman Who Knows: Female Characters of Eyrbyggja Saga, Forrest S. Scott

Male Bonding, Female Body: The Absenting of Women in "Bisclaretz liód," Kerry Shea

Ambiguously Gendered: The Skalds Jórunn, Audr and Steinunn, Sandra Ballif Straubhaar

Women Outside: Discourse of Community in Hávamál, Karen Swenson

Saga World and Nineteenth-Century Iceland: The Case of Women Farmers, Tórunn Sigurdardóttir

Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah M. Anderson teaches in the Department of English at Princeton University, and Karen Swenson teaches at Virginia Tech University.