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From Iceland to the Americas
eBook - Vinland and historical imagination, Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
ISBN/EAN: 9781526128775
Umbreit-Nr.: 1205503
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 304 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 07.04.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eirikssons visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies,<i>From Iceland to the Americas</i> approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.
- Kurztext
- This volume looks at how Leif Eirikssons visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.
- Autorenportrait
- Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre DameJón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland