Flesh and Word : : Reading Bodies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Early Irish Literature / / Sarah Künzler.

Bodies and their role in cultural discourse have been a constant focus in the humanities and social sciences in recent years, but comparatively few studies exist about Old Norse-Icelandic or early Irish literature. This study aims to redress this imbalance and presents carefully contextualised close...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Trends in Medieval Philology , 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 449 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Speak for Yourself! Expressive Mediality and the Self
  • 3. I am the Other – Who are You? Expressive Mediality and the Other
  • 4. Scratching the Surface: Reading Bodies in Transmissive Mediality
  • 5. The Need to Need: Natural Bodily Matters in Mediality Discourse
  • 6. Concluding Matters
  • 7. List of Abbreviations
  • Index