Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative

Download or read book Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative written by Heather O'Donoghue and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a detailed reading of a series of sophisticated medieval narratives, the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas. It shows how saga authors achieved a wide range of stylistic and psychological effects through the interplay of prose and verse: bringing history to life, presenting fiction as if it were history, and providing saga characters with dramatic dialogue and strange soliloquies.