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Author Stefán Einarsson, 1897-1972, author.

Title A History of Icelandic Literature
Published New York, Johns Hopkins Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 409 pages))
Series American-Scandinavian Foundation. Publications
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Contents Introduction -- Eddic Poetry -- Skaldic Poetry -- Sacred Poetry -- Secular Poetry of the Later Middle Ages -- Literature of the Clergy -- The Earliest Historiographers -- The Kings' Sagas -- The Sagas -- The Family Sagas -- Sturlunga Saga -- Fornalder Sogur -- Romances of Chivalry and Lygi Sogur -- The Reformation -- The Icelandic Renaissance -- Secular Poetry, 1550-1750 -- Enlightenment (Neo-Classicism), 1750-1830 -- National Romanticism, 1830-1874 -- Realism to Neo-Romanticism, 1874-1918 -- Tradition and Revolt Between the World Wars, 1918-1940 -- After World War II, 1940-1956 -- American-Icelandic Writers
Summary Stefán Einarsson covers almost a thousand years of Icelandic literature in tracing the influence of the sagas and eddic poems. The book begins with background on Icelandic literature, outlining its literary roots in Scandinavia. Following this, Einarsson provides a thorough survey of Icelandic literature through the 1950s
Analysis Literary theory
Notes Originally published in 1957
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-362)
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Icelandic literature -- History and criticism
Old Norse literature -- History and criticism
Old Norse literature
Icelandic literature
Literatur
Geschichte
Isländisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor.
Project Muse.
LC no. 57009519
ISBN 9781421435473
1421435470