Further Reading

This section offers suggestions for further reading, with hyperlinks where the resource is available online.

  • Acker, Paul. 1998. Revising Oral Theory: Formulaic Composition in Old English and Old Icelandic Verse. New York: Garland.
  • Bauman, Richard. 1977. Verbal Art as Performance. Rowley: Newbury House.
  • Clover, Carol J., 'Skaldic Sensibility', Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 93 (1978), 63-81.
  • Foley, John Miles. 1995 . The Singer of Tales in Performance: Voices in Performance and Text. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Gunnell, Terry. 1995. The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer.
  • Gunnell, Terry. 'Introduction: Performance Stages of the Nordic World', Ethnologia Europaea 40/2 (2010), 5-13. Available here
  • Gunnell, Terry. 2008. 'The Performance of the Poetic Edda', in The Viking World, ed. Stefan Brink & Neil Price. Routledge: London. 299-203.
  • Harris, J. 1983 . 'Eddic Poetry as Oral Poetry: The Evidence of Parallel Passages in the Helgi Poems for Questions of Composition and Performance.” In Edda: A Collection of Essays. Ed. Robert J. Glendinning and Haraldur Bessason. Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press. pp. 210-42.
  • Mitchell, Stephen A. 1991 . Heroic Sagas and Ballads. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Mitchell, Stephen A. 2001. 'Performance and Norse Poetry: The Hydromel of Praise and the Effluvia of Scorn' (The Albert Lord and Milman Parry Lecture for 2001), Oral Tradition 16/1 (2001): 168-202. 
  • Nagy, Gregory. 1996b . Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Niles, John. 1999. Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral LiteraturePhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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