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In Search of the Culprit
Despite various poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. The Romantic idea that an author created a text or even a work autonomously is transferred even to pre-modern literature today. This ignores the fact that the transmission of medieval and early modern literature creates variances that could not be justified by means of singular authorships. The present volume offers new theoretical approaches from English, German, and Scandinavian studies to provide a historically more adequate approach to the question of authorship in premodern literary cultures. Authorship is no longer equated with an extra-textual entity, but is instead considered a narratological, inner- and intertextual function that can be recognized in the retrospectively established beginnings of literature as well as in the medial transformation of texts during the early days of printing. The volume is aimed at interested scholars of all philologies, especially those dealing with the Middle Ages or Early Modern Period.
Monasticism and Textual Communities in Iceland
By examining the Hervararkviða and Völuspa within the Hauksbók, section AM 544 4to, and AM 98 8vo alongside similar Latin fragments, also containing the sequence Lux illuxit laetabunda from the Mass of St. Olaf, this work examines the textual culture, and transmission of material, and manuscript culture of these two examples. Hauksbók is a complex item. Named for its main organizer and compiler, Haukr Erlendsson, it is built up of separate pamphlets, bound into quires, and then into the extant manuscript. It contains a range of material from clerical considerations, theological ponderings, a map of Jerusalem, a version of the pagan poem Völuspa, christianized in its context, various sag...
