Children's Literature and Old Norse Medievalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-64189-494-4
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Arc Medievalist

This book explores the ways in which contemporary authors respond to and rework key aspects of Old Norse history and viking culture for young twenty-first-century audiences. Why are contemporary authors and audiences so manifestly attracted to the viking past? In what ways do writers respond to Norse sources? How do the narratives they tell reflect our beliefs about and desires for the past, our constructions of childhood and adolescence, our anxieties around gender, sexuality, and ethnicity? How do these texts engage with a future occluded by apocalyptic ecological threat? David Clark explores these questions through readings of a rich body of diverse material which retells, updates, and transforms Norse culture. The volume contextualizes Norse medievalism and explores how thematic foci on gender, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity relate to contemporary concerns around these topics, and the construction of childhood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The End

Chapter 1: Age-Related Categories

Chapter 2: Generic Categories

Chapter 3: Transformational Fantasy

Chapter 4: Horned Helmets and Comic Anachronism

Chapter 5: Viking Reputation

Chapter 6: Runes and Magic

Chapter 7: The Power of Story

Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 9: Heroism

Chapter 10: Viking Masculinity

Chapter 11: Viking Femininity

Chapter 12: Viking Sex and Gender

Chapter 13: Bowdlerization

Chapter 14: Sexuality

Chapter 15: Ecological Threat

Chapter 16: Norse Medievalism in Alan Early’s Father of Lies Trilogy

Chapter 17: Avoiding the End of Days: K. L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr’s Blackwell Pages

Chapter 18: Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase Series and Norse Medievalism

Conclusion

Select Bibliography of Frequently Cited Works

Über Autor(innen)

Clark, David
David Clark is the author of three monographs, four edited collections, and a crime novel, and for many years taught and researched medieval literatures, gender and sexuality studies, creative writing, and contemporary medievalism. He currently teaches Musical Theatre and vocal repertoire sessions for London College of Music, and writes and sings around Manchester.