Western Icelandic Short Stories

Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-88755-628-9
Verlag: University of Manitoba Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

This selection of Western Icelandic writings, the first of its kind in English, represents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors. The stories, first published between 1895 and 1930, are set mainly in North America (especially Manitoba). They reflect a weath of literary activity, from the numerous Western Icelandic newspapers and journals, to the reading circles and cultural and literary societies that supported them.

The stories show a wide range of experiences and influences, including Old Norse Icelandic literature and romantic nationalism, but they also reveal the emergence of a literature that bears a unique cultural imprint.

Western Icelandic Short Stories includes some of the best wirting from the period--- narrative, descriptive, comical, satirical, and serious. The stories may be read as much for enjoyment as for what they reveal about the Western Icelandic literary tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wolf, Kirsten

Hjaltadottir, Arny

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsten Wolf is a former chair of the Icelandic Department at the University of Manitoba, Canada. She has edited Gyndinga Saga, Saga heilagrarnnu, and Dorotheu saga, has been involved in Medieval Scandinavia: En Encyclopedia, and is co-translator and co-editor of an earlier anthology, Western Icelandic Short Stories.

Arny Hjaltadottir is a translator and works in the Icelandic Collection at the Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba, Canada.