{"product_id":"viking-mediologies-a-new-history-of-skaldic-poetics-hardback-9780823298242","title":"Viking Mediologies; A New History of Skaldic Poetics (Hardback) 9780823298242","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eViking Mediologies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA New History of Skaldic Poetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKate Heslop (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823298242\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 10 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.766 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR STUDIES IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eViking Mediologies\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship—distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop reconsiders these not as texts but as pieces in a pre-modern media landscape, focusing on poetry's medial capacity to embody memory, visuality, and sound.\u003cbr\u003e Mobile, hybrid, diasporic social formations—bands of raiders and traders, petty kingdoms, colonial expeditions—achieved new prominence in the Viking Age. Skalds offered the leaders of these groups something uniquely valuable. With their complicated poetry, they claimed to be able to capture shared contingent meanings and re-mediate them in named, memorable, reproducible works. The commemorative poetry in \u003ci\u003ekviðuháttr \u003c\/i\u003eremembers histories of ruin and loss. Skaldic ekphrasis discloses and reproduces the presence of the gods. \u003ci\u003eDróttkvætt \u003c\/i\u003eencomium evokes for the leader's retinue the soundscape of battle.\u003cbr\u003e As writing arrived in Scandinavia in the wake of Christianization, the media landscape shifted. In the poetry of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, skalds adjusted to the demands of a literate audience, while the historical and poetological texts of the Icelandic High Middle Ages opened a dialogue between Latin Christian ideas of mediation and local traditions. In the \u003ci\u003eSecond Grammatical Treatise\u003c\/i\u003e, for example, the literate technology of the grid is used to analyze the complex resonances of dróttkvætt as the output of a syllable-spewing hurdy-gurdy—a poetry machine.\u003cbr\u003e Offering both new readings of both canonical works such as \u003ci\u003eYnglingatal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRagnarsdrápa\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHáttatal\u003c\/i\u003e, and examinations of lesser-known texts like \u003ci\u003eGlymdrápa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLíknarbraut\u003c\/i\u003e, and Sturla Þórðarson's \u003ci\u003eHákonarkviða\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eViking Mediologies\u003c\/i\u003e explores the powers and limits of poetic mediation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeneral Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbbreviations for Poets and Poems\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  xiii \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Making Memories \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRök and\u003c\/i\u003e Ynglingatal   15 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eDeath in Place   20\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Forging the Chain   46\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStone—Stanza—Memory\u003c\/i\u003e   72\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Seeing Things\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e The Viking Eye   81\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Seeing, Knowing, and Believing in the \u003ci\u003eProse Edda \u003c\/i\u003e  108\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Hearing Voices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Noise of Poetry   135\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e A Poetry Machine   160 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion \u003c\/b\u003e  185\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReferences \u003c\/i\u003e  257\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  291 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlates follow page 78\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580465738008,"sku":"9780823298242","price":104.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/viking-mediologies-a-new-history-of-skaldic-poetics-hardback-9780823298242","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}