The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf
The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf

Author: Oscar Ludvig Olson

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-04

Total Pages: 124

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf" (A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The / Scandinavian Countries) by Oscar Ludvig Olson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972
A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972

Author: Stanley B. Greenfield

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2008-07-28

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1556356374

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"Greenfield and Robinson state in their preface that they have sought to include every book, monograph, article, note, and review published on Old English literature since the invention of printing. They have come as close to doing so as two descendants of Adam possibly can, undeterred by the trouble at Babel. (By my count, thirty different languages are represented in the bibliography, sixteen of them frequently.) Rarely has any bibliography in any other discipline equalled the thoroughness and accuracy of this one. It is a contribution for which Greenfield and Robinson will long receive from their colleagues that measure of gratitude reserved for Old English scholarship's most bounteous treasure-givers."--Carl T. Berkhout"What astonishes is how well [Greenfield and Robinson] have succeeded in what they set out to do, how uniformly excellent their volume is in all its profusion of information and detail. . . . The Bibliography will bring scholars that peculiar joy in complex intellectual work done well that only they know; it will be immensely useful, virtually indispensable--if not a vade mecum because of its size . . . then at least an enchiridion with which they will fight their battles on behalf of Beowulf and Brunanburb and the Blickling Homilies."--The Old English Newsletter"[A] volume long needed, [the Bibliography] will now become an indispensable reference work for every student of Old English literature from the beginner to the acknowledged authority."--British Book News

The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf
The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf

Author: Oscar Ludvig Olson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780282563936

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Excerpt from The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf: A Contribution to the History of Saga Development in England and the Scandinavian Countries; A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy As the field under consideration has been the object of investiga tion by a number of scholars, much that otherwise would need to be explained to prepare the way for what is to be presented lies ready at hand, and this is used as a foundation on which to build further. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature
Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature

Author: Dimitrios Kassis

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-02-05

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1443875155

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Travel literature has always been associated with the construction of utopias which were founded on the idea of unknown lands. During their journeys in foreign lands, British travellers tended to formulate various critical opinions based on their background knowledge of the country visited. Their attempts to interpret other nations were often misinterpretations of the peoples in question as the Other. At the close of the eighteenth century, when Grand Tourism started to fade away and travelling became a mainstream activity for the middle-class Briton, travel writers attempted to identify with.

Landscape in Children's Literature
Landscape in Children's Literature

Author: Jane Suzanne Carroll

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1136321179

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This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children’s fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of landscape topoi from their earliest inception in medieval vernacular texts through to contemporary children's literature. The identification and analysis of landscape topoi synthesizes recent theories about interstitial space together with earlier morphological and topoanalytical studies, enabling the study of fictional landscapes in terms of their physical characteristics as well as in terms of their relationship with contemporary texts and historical precedents. Ultimately, by providing topoanalytical studies of other children’s texts, Carroll proposes topoanalysis as a rich critical method for the study and understanding of children’s literature and indicates how the findings of this approach may be expanded upon. In offering both transferable methodologies and detailed case-studies, this book outlines a new approach to literary landscapes as geographical places within socio-historical contexts.

Icelandic Utopia in Victorian Travel Literature
Icelandic Utopia in Victorian Travel Literature

Author: Dimitrios Kassis

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-05-11

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 144389396X

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This book focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework. In particular, it investigates the ways in which five nineteenth-century travellers define their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland during the Victorian period, during which European nationalism emerges as an idea of paramount importance. Owing to the gradual contemplation of this peripheral word as the cradle of the Germanic nations, Victorian travel writers endeavoured to reconstruct the image of Iceland in accordance with the racial theoretical framework that underlay the nineteenth-century British nation-building agenda.