The distributed author and the poetics of complexity : a comparative study of the sagas of Icelanders and Serbian epic poetry
The thesis brings together Íslendingasögur and srpske junačke pesme, two historically and culturally unrelated heroic literatures, literatures that had, nevertheless, converged upon a similar kind of realism. This feature in which they diverge from the earlier European epics - Beowulf, Nibelungenlie...
Main Author: | Ranković, Slavica |
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University of Nottingham
2006
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.537246 |
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