Fire
© 2013 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. This essay follows the complicated aftermath of the agency of fire in medieval Iceland and contemporary Australia. Through a close reading of two Norse sagas, we argue that despite fire's ephemeral nature its material effects are as evident in texts as they are...
| Published in: | postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Language: | unknown |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11343/41019 https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2012.40 |
| Summary: | © 2013 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. This essay follows the complicated aftermath of the agency of fire in medieval Iceland and contemporary Australia. Through a close reading of two Norse sagas, we argue that despite fire's ephemeral nature its material effects are as evident in texts as they are in landscapes. |
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