IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 735: Old Norse-Icelandic Sagas: Marking and Crossing Borders of Genre
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Sabine Heidi Walther, Abteilung für Skandinavische Sprachen und Literaturen, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Friederike Richter, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin |
| Paper 735-a | Towards the Application of Film Genre Theory in Saga Studies (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 735-b | Making Sense of Beigaðr's Death: Contextual and Generic Factors in the Íslendingasögur and Landnámabók (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 735-c | Sagas Crossing Genre Borders (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Abstract | Saga genres are notoriously problematic to define. However, the categorisation according to genre is not a superficial exercise that we undertake for practical reasons to give things a name, but it has important implications for the understanding and interpretation of saga literature. The three papers of this session will address the question of saga genres from three different angles. Yoav Tirosh explores the possibilities of a theoretical transfer of hermeneutic tools from modern film genre theory to saga studies. Anna Katharina Heiniger analyzes comments in the meta-narrative, which can be interpreted as stylistic and generic signposts regarding contemporary notions of narrative aesthetics. Sabine Heidi Walther investigates sagas that deliberately play with markers of different saga genres, asking what it may reveal with regards to the authorial awareness of narratological concepts such as the narrator or fictionality. |