{"product_id":"introduction-to-the-sagas-of-icelanders","title":"Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAn essential resource for exploring the early literary genre of Icelandic saga narratives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, \u003cem\u003eAn Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders\u003c\/em\u003e  provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre  that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two  centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary  theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga  narratives about the island’s early history.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhelpstead  explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating  the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew  on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed  discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and  sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old  Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies,  feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism. He then presents readings  of select individual sagas, pointing out how the genre’s various source  traditions and thematic concerns interact.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding an  overview of the history of English translations that shows how they  have been stimulated and shaped by ideas about identity, and featuring a  glossary of critical terms, this book is an essential resource for  students of the literary form.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA  volume in the series \u003cem\u003eNew Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Tison Pugh\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258808422744,"sku":"9780813080680","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813080680.jpg?v=1777717848","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/introduction-to-the-sagas-of-icelanders","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}