Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Nordische Philologie 2020.9

A crit­i­cal com­pan­ion to Old Norse lit­er­ary genre
We can­not read lit­er­ary works with­out mak­ing use of the con­cept of genre. In Old Norse stud­ies, genre has been cen­tral to the cat­e­gori­sa­tion, eval­u­a­tion and under­stand­ing of medieval prose and poet­ry alike; yet its def­i­n­i­tion has been elu­sive and its impli­ca­tions often left unex­plored.
This vol­ume opens up fun­da­men­tal ques­tions about Old Norse genre in the­o­ry and in prac­tice. It offers an exten­sive range of the­o­ret­i­cal approach­es, inves­ti­gat­ing and cri­tiquing cur­rent terms and sit­u­at­ing its argu­ments with­in ear­ly Scan­di­na­vian and Ice­landic oral-lit­er­ary and man­u­script con­texts. It maps the ways in which genre and form engage with key the­mat­ic areas with­in the lit­er­ary cor­pus, not­ing the dif­fer­ent kinds of impact upon the genre sys­tem brought about by con­ver­sion to Chris­tian­i­ty, the grad­ual adop­tion of Euro­pean lit­er­ary mod­els, and social and cul­tur­al changes occur­ring in Scan­di­na­vian soci­ety. A case-study sec­tion probes both pro­to­typ­i­cal and hard-to-define cas­es, demon­strat­ing the chal­lenges that actu­al texts pose to genre the­o­ry in terms of hybrid­i­ty, evo­lu­tion and inno­va­tion. With an anno­tat­ed tax­on­o­my of Old Norse gen­res and an exten­sive bib­li­og­ra­phy, it is an indis­pens­able resource for con­tem­po­rary Old Norse-Ice­landic lit­er­ary stud­ies.
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Dream­ing of a Glac­i­er: Snae­fell­sjökull in a Geo­crit­i­cal Per­spec­tive
Snæfell­sjökull is one of Iceland’s most famous vol­ca­noes. It is there that Jules Verne locat­ed the entrance to the cen­tre of the earth; it is the abode of a medieval saga hero and the loca­tion of one of Halldór Laxness’s nov­els. Trav­ellers, painters, poets, and film-mak­ers have been drawn to it in equal mea­sure – while at the same time and against all expec­ta­tions, oth­ers seem unfazed: as famous as the moun­tain is on a nation­al and inter­na­tion­al stage, local folk­lore and medieval his­to­ri­og­ra­phy have amaz­ing­ly lit­tle inter­est in it. Clear­ly, Snæfell­sjökull is not the same to every­one.
This vol­ume presents a sur­vey of the place of Snæfell­sjökull in the Ice­landic and Euro­pean imag­i­na­tion. It adapts the par­a­digm of geo­crit­i­cism, which shifts the focus of the schol­ar­ly inves­ti­ga­tion from the work of indi­vid­ual authors to the mul­ti­tude of views that dif­fer­ent authors, artists, and prac­ti­tion­ers have on a sin­gle place. The results of the per­am­bu­la­tion of Snæfell­sjökull pre­sent­ed here show that both its cul­tur­al and lit­er­ary his­to­ry, as well as the par­a­digm of geo­crit­i­cism, open up broad vis­tas that amply repay the effort nec­es­sary to tack­le this moun­tain.
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