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The origins of many of the Icelandic sagas have long been the subject of critical speculation and controversy. This book demonstrates that an investigation of the relationship between verse and prose in saga narrative can be used to reconstruct how the sagas were composed. O'Donoghue provides a detailed analysis of Kormaks saga, revealing that far from being a seamless narrative of either pre-Christian oral tradition or later medieval fiction, the work is in fact a patchwork of different kinds of literary materials.
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Travis Wilson
reviewed The Genesis of a Saga Narrative (Oxford English Monographs Series): Verse and Prose in Kormaks Saga on December 08, 2011
The Genesis of a Saga Narrative (Oxford English Monographs Series)
Looking at (socio)linguistic questions thru a more cultural studies lens. Hard to get into. Influenced by Foucault and Bakhtin but they don't pop up a lot in the text.
Update: finished reading/skimming. An interesting historical look at evolving concepts of 'standard English' from the 18th century to the late 20th in Great Britain. I don't know if I missed something, but it looks like early on, linguists and philologists were OK with saying "it's just what educated people use" which somehow became reified by the 20th century, where 'regular people' were content to see it as an objective reality. I could be misreading it though. Linguists still see it as a problematic concept but it has great currency in popular political and media discourse.
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