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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: medieval saga
  name:
    name part: Clover, Carol J.
    name part: 1940-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: Ithaca, N.Y
    publisher: Cornell University Press
    date issued: ©1982
    date issued: 1982
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland-the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas passed down by word of mouth. How did they become the long and polished literary works that are still read today?The evolution of the written sagas is commonly regarded as an anomalous phenomenon, distinct from contemporary developments in European literature. In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in Iceland directly to the rise of imaginative prose on the Continent. Analyzing the narrative structure and composition of the sagas and comparing them with other medieval works, Clover shows that the Icelandic authors, using Continental models, owe the prose form of their writings, as well as some basic narrative strategies, to Latin historiography and to French romance.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Open Composition -- 2. Stranding -- 3. Simultaneity -- 4. Toward the Classical Saga -- Editions Consulted -- Index
  note: Carol J. Clover.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Sagas
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Medieval
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Sagas
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Littérature médiévale
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Sagas
  classification: PT7183 .C56 1982
  classification: 839/.63
  classification: 18.14
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Medieval saga
    name:
      name part: Clover, Carol J., 1940-
    origin info:
      publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©1982
    identifier: (DLC) 81017432
    identifier: (OCoLC)7976949
  identifier: 9781501740510
  identifier: 1501740512
  identifier: 0801414474
  identifier: 9780801414473
  identifier: 81017432
  identifier: 22573/ctvn0z66z JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvn1t9s7
  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 100325
    record change date: 20230103223155.1
    record identifier: in00004634287
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng