IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 102: The Late Medieval and Early Modern Life of Romances: Specifically, Icelandic Ones
Monday 11 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Leeds Studies in English |
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Organiser: | Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki |
Moderator/Chair: | Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki |
Paper 102-a | Different Scribes, Different Stories: Nitida Saga as an Example of Textual Reworking in the Post-Medieval Period (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 102-b | Different Ways of Telling a Story: Form and Function in Late Medieval Icelandic Popular Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 102-c | Yngvars saga víðförla and the Genesis of Saga Writing in Iceland (Language: English) |
Abstract | Late medieval Iceland was one of Europe's hotbeds of romance-writing - and offers a uniquely rich case study of the ongoing transmission of medieval romance into the early modern period. This session will include literary readings, investigations of late medieval and early modern manuscript transmission and its significance for understanding the reception of romances, and the interplay between prose and verse in romance form. |