Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga: Meanings of Time in Old Norse Literature – eBook

The Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world’s most fantastic literature, representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries. Here, Heather O’Donoghue skilfully examines the notions of time and the singular textual voice of the Sagas, offering a fresh perspective on the foundational texts of Old Norse and medieval Icelandic heritage.

With a conspicuous absence of giants, dragons, and fairy tale magic, these sagas reflect a real-world society in transition, grappling with major new challenges of identity and development. As this book reveals, the stance of the narrator and the role of time – from the representation of external time passing to the audience’s experience of moving through a narrative – are crucial to these stories. As such, Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga draws on modern narratological theory to explore how saga authors maintain the urgency and complexity of their material, handle the narrative and chronological line, and offer wise insights into saga society. In doing so, O’Donoghue presents new poetics of family sagas and redefines the literary rhetoric of saga narratives.

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