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* '''Title''': | * '''Title''': The Meaning of ''Njáls saga'' | ||
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* '''Year''': | * '''Year''': 1981 | ||
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* '''Reference''': '' | * '''Reference''': Berger, Alan J. "The Meaning of ''Njáls saga''." ''Skandinavistik'' 11 (1981): 1-8. | ||
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Alan Berger addresses the question of authorial intent in ''Njáls saga'' through the analysis of the plot structure, and the identification of thematically relevant motives that appear at key-moments of the narrative. According to him, the author of ''Njáls saga'' alternates climactic and anti-climactic episodes, thus "reversing and re-reversing the tragic plot" (p. 5), in order to trigger a reflection on the ambiguity of the concepts of friends and enemies and the dysfunctional nature of socially consecrated modes of reconciliation. | |||
==Lýsing== | ==Lýsing== | ||
Revision as of 12:13, 16 August 2016
- Author: Berger, Alan J.
- Title: The Meaning of Njáls saga
- Published in: Skandinavistik 11
- Year: 1981
- Pages: 1-8
- E-text:
- Reference: Berger, Alan J. "The Meaning of Njáls saga." Skandinavistik 11 (1981): 1-8.
- Key words:
Annotation
Alan Berger addresses the question of authorial intent in Njáls saga through the analysis of the plot structure, and the identification of thematically relevant motives that appear at key-moments of the narrative. According to him, the author of Njáls saga alternates climactic and anti-climactic episodes, thus "reversing and re-reversing the tragic plot" (p. 5), in order to trigger a reflection on the ambiguity of the concepts of friends and enemies and the dysfunctional nature of socially consecrated modes of reconciliation.
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