The Rewriting of Njáls Saga : Translation, Politics and Icelandic Sagas. Multilingual Matters
The Rewriting of Njáls saga concerns itself with the process which enables literary texts to cross cultures and endure history. Through six interrelated case studies, Jón Karl Helgason focuses on the reception of Njáls saga, the most distinguished of the Icelandic sagas, in Britain, the United State...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/3760 2023-05-15T16:48:35+02:00 The Rewriting of Njáls Saga : Translation, Politics and Icelandic Sagas. Multilingual Matters Helgason, Jón Karl Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies 1999 175 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3760 en eng Multilingual Matters Topics in Translation; 16() Helgason , J K 1999 , The Rewriting of Njáls Saga : Translation, Politics and Icelandic Sagas. Multilingual Matters . Topics in Translation , vol. 16 , Multilingual Matters , Clevedon, Buffalo, Toronto, Sydney . 978-1853594571 PURE: 65394487 PURE UUID: 681157c9-5109-4306-82c5-4eade69b6ee2 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3760 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/bookanthology/book 1999 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/3760 2022-12-21T23:50:54Z The Rewriting of Njáls saga concerns itself with the process which enables literary texts to cross cultures and endure history. Through six interrelated case studies, Jón Karl Helgason focuses on the reception of Njáls saga, the most distinguished of the Icelandic sagas, in Britain, the United States, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, between 1861 and 1945. The editions and translations in question claim to represent a medieval narrative to their audience, but Helgason emphasizes how these texts simultaneously reflect the rewriters' contemporary ideas about race, culture, politics and poetics. Introducing the principles of comparative Translation Studies to the field of Medieval Literature, Helgason's book identifies the dialogue between literary (re)production and society. Peer reviewed Other/Unknown Material Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) Norway |
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The Rewriting of Njáls saga concerns itself with the process which enables literary texts to cross cultures and endure history. Through six interrelated case studies, Jón Karl Helgason focuses on the reception of Njáls saga, the most distinguished of the Icelandic sagas, in Britain, the United States, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, between 1861 and 1945. The editions and translations in question claim to represent a medieval narrative to their audience, but Helgason emphasizes how these texts simultaneously reflect the rewriters' contemporary ideas about race, culture, politics and poetics. Introducing the principles of comparative Translation Studies to the field of Medieval Literature, Helgason's book identifies the dialogue between literary (re)production and society. Peer reviewed |
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The Rewriting of Njáls Saga : Translation, Politics and Icelandic Sagas. Multilingual Matters |
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Topics in Translation; 16() Helgason , J K 1999 , The Rewriting of Njáls Saga : Translation, Politics and Icelandic Sagas. Multilingual Matters . Topics in Translation , vol. 16 , Multilingual Matters , Clevedon, Buffalo, Toronto, Sydney . 978-1853594571 PURE: 65394487 PURE UUID: 681157c9-5109-4306-82c5-4eade69b6ee2 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3760 |
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