{"product_id":"revisiting-the-poetic-edda-paul-acker-9780415888615","title":"Revisiting the Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigur; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Gu佖 and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Fri, whose name lives on in Tolkien's Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to \u003cem\u003eThe Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner's Der \u003cem\u003eRing des Nibelungen\u003c\/em\u003e, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, \u003cem\u003eThe Legend of Sigurd\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGudr佖\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Acker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415888611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415888615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.38w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2013","brand":"Paul Acker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056093950207,"sku":"9780415888615","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9976665b-8986-4842-948a-0149eb124909.jpg?v=1685039479","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revisiting-the-poetic-edda-paul-acker-9780415888615","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}