Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian WorldU of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 141 Seiten 'An extraordinary rich study of the power of place in the Northern medieval world by two medievalists, who are also 'compleat geographers' in that they do fieldwork that is always informed by theory and they demonstrate exceptional sensitivity to place's double nature-compelling presence and elusiveness to interpretation.' Yi-Fu Tuan, Department of Geography University of Wisconsin at Madison |
Inhalt
Mapping Beowulf Reinventing Beowulfs Voyage to Denmark | 5 |
Traveling Home with Beowulf | 18 |
Geography in the Reader Place in Question | 43 |
Iceland and Icelanders | 50 |
Places in Question | 59 |
Selves in Place Gunnar Hamundarson | 68 |
Places in Translation and the Metonymy of Terrain | 83 |
The Saga of the Saga | 99 |
Wheres Grettir? | 109 |
Notes | 123 |
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Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World Gillian R. Overing Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1994 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Beowulf Beowulf poet Bohuslän Byock C. L. Wrenn Cattegat chapter cliffs Crumlin-Pedersen cultural Danish Denmark dragon Drangey experience farm fiction Figure Fjällbacka Galadriel Gammel Lejre Gautar Geatish Geats geographical Gillian Göta Älv Göteborg Grendel's Grettir Grettir's Saga Gudrun Gunnar hall Hastrup Heimskringla Heorot hero Hög Edsten homeland Hygelac Hygelac's idea imagine Iron Age island Isle Fjord journey king Kjartan Klaeber land Landnámabók landscape landvættir Laxdæla Saga Lejre literary live Marijane masculine medieval Iceland Metonymy modern monster narrative audience Norse Ohthere Old English outlaw past perhaps place-name plate poem present question reality Reykir Reykjavik road to Drangey Roskilde Roskilde Fjord sailing Scandinavia scholars Scylding seafaring sense ship Snorri Snorri Sturluson social space spatial stone story suggests Sutton Hoo Sweden Swedish terrain tion Trans translation troll Tuan University Press Viking voyage waterfall Weder-Geats Wedermark wind woman women
Beliebte Passagen
Seite vii - Space that has been seized upon by the imagination cannot remain indifferent space subject to the measures and estimates of the surveyor.
Seite vii - Through the same opening that is her danger, she comes out of herself to go to the other, a traveler in unexplored places; she does not refuse, she approaches, not to do away with the space between, but to see it. to experience what she is not. what she is, what she can be.
Seite xvii - In terms of its own metaphors, the scientific position of speech is that of an observer fixed on the edge of a space, looking in and/or down upon what is other.