Nordic Instructor Publishes New Translation of Viking Sagas

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:08:11 +0000

Nordic Instructor Publishes New Translation of Viking Sagas Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/26/2017 - 10:08 feature nordic nordic

Hackett Publishing Company has published its second book by Jackson Crawford. The Saga of the Volsungs, with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok continues the project Crawford began in 2015 with the publication of his bestselling translation of The Poetic Edda, which renders the most important source of the myths of the Norse gods in accessible, contemporary English for general readers and undergraduate classes. The Saga of the Volsungs is the medieval Icelandic epic of the ill-fated romances, tragic murders, and larger-than-life wars of the heroes of the Volsung family. Its sequel, The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok, was also written in the Middle Ages in Iceland, and continues the story with another two generations of legendary Viking chieftains connected by marriage to the Volsung family.

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Jillian Porter's New Book

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:49:38 +0000

Jillian Porter's New Book Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/24/2017 - 15:49 feature russian russian

Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature under Nicholas I (Northwestern UP, 2017)

Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion. Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist Russia and argues that the dissonance between foreign and domestic understandings of this economic passion shaped the literature of Nicholas I’s reign (1825–1855). For Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Bulgarin, ambition became a staging ground for experiments with transnational literary exchange. In its encounters with the celebrated Russian cultural value of hospitality and the age-old vice of miserliness, ambition appears both timely and anachronistic, suspiciously foreign and disturbingly Russian.

Congratulations to Jillian!

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