Viking Mediologies: A New History of Skaldic Poetics

by Kate Heslop

Book Overview

WINNER, ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR STUDIES IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship--distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823298248
• ISBN13: 9780823298242
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"