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Title: La funzione dell'eroe germanico : storicità, metafora, paradigma : atti del Convegno internazionale di studio, Roma, 6-8 mag
Description: Roma, Calamo, 1995. orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, xiii,376,(32)p, Series: Philologia, 2. Weighs 850 grams.. 32pp photoplates.. ISBN: 8886148135. Some minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 6 papers in Italian, 7 papers in English, 1 in French. Includes: Su una denominazione germanica dell'"eroe": kampjan; Quid Hinieldus cum feminis: The Hero & Women at the End of the First Millenium; Monsters, the Gaze, Death, & the Hero: An Outsider's Rambling Thoughts on Beowulf, Grettis Sagas, & the Myth of Medusa; Conspicuous by Absence: Heroism in the Early Frankish Eras (6th-7th Cent.); The Concept of Heroism in the Anglo-Saxon Epic; La dimensione eroica nella Giuditta anglosassone; La parabola dell'eroe; Modelli e caratteri di eroicità nelle iscrizioni runiche della Scandinavia vichinga; L'eroe germanico contro avversari mostruosi: tra testo e iconografia; The Limited World of Medieval Man; The Hero in Christian Reception: Ælfric & Heroic Poetry; Thorr as Comic Hero; etc.

Keywords: 8886148135 Medieval Literature, Germanic Literature, Old English, Epic Poetry, Heldensage, Saga Sagas, Heroes Hero, Heroic, Literary History, Criticism

Price: US$ 69.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS024351I