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Wanner, Kevin J.

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The distinguished norseman: Snorri Sturluson, the "Edda", and the conversion of capital in medieval Scandinavia (Iceland).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The distinguished norseman: Snorri Sturluson, the "Edda", and the conversion of capital in medieval Scandinavia (Iceland)./
Author:	Wanner, Kevin J.
Description:	492 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2529.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3097170

The distinguished norseman: Snorri Sturluson, the "Edda", and the conversion of capital in medieval Scandinavia (Iceland).
Wanner, Kevin J.

The distinguished norseman: Snorri Sturluson, the "Edda", and the conversion of capital in medieval Scandinavia (Iceland). - 492 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2529.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2003.

This project reassesses the strategic interests that motivated the production of the Edda (ca. 1220--25), a guide to skaldic poetry and pagan Norse mythology written by the Icelandic author, aspiring court-poet, and leading political figure Snorri Sturluson (1179?--1241). While Snorri's responsibility for this text is widely affirmed, it has been viewed as a paradox by specialists of medieval Scandinavian culture, who question why Snorri, who is described in contemporary sagas as the most powerful, wealthy, and socially-connected Icelander of his day, would have produced a pedagogic guide to poetry and myth. This seeming contradiction between Snorri's life and work has led some to doubt his authorship of the Edda, others to distrust the accuracy of existing portraits of his life, and many to imagine that there were, in effect, two Snorris, the one a power-hungry, manipulative, self-serving politician/lawyer, the other an aesthetic, sensitive writer of scholarly treatises.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

The distinguished norseman: Snorri Sturluson, the "Edda", and the conversion of capital in medieval Scandinavia (Iceland).
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520 $a Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, in which agents are understood to deploy, convert, and compete for forms of capital (cultural, social, symbolic, and material) within and between semi-autonomous fields of production and consumption, this project situates Snorri's literary activity in relation to the other kinds of practices in which he was invested, thereby revealing the Edda as, rather than a product of antiquarian desire, its author's strategic attempt to preserve the worth of one of his chief sources of cultural capital. More precisely, this text was designed to protect the value of skaldic verse, an elaborate and stereotyped art-form whose diction drew heavily upon mythological narrative. Skill in composing skaldic poetry was an asset that Icelanders had long converted into profits of various kinds in the market of the Norwegian court, but which was losing its relevance for the increasingly cosmopolitan elite of early thirteenth-century Norway. By situating the Edda's production within its author's biographical and sociocultural context, rather confronted with a paradoxical figure, alternately worldly and academic, but rather perceive the common interests and ambitions that propelled Snorri's political and literary activities.
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