Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative

ISBN: 9780199267323 出版年：2007 页码：264 O'Donoghue, Heather Oxford University Press

Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a detailed reading of a series of sophisticated medieval narratives, the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas. It shows how saga authors achieved a wide range of stylistic and psychological effects through the interplay of prose and verse: bringing history to life, presenting fiction as if it were history, and providing saga characters with dramatic dialogue and strange soliloquies.