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  1. Hrafnkel or the ambiguities
    hard cases, hard choices
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. 'Hrafnkel' tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a... more

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    William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. 'Hrafnkel' tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex issues with finely layered irony: who can one justifiably hit, when, and by what means? It does this with cool nuance, also taking on matters of torture and pain-infliction as a means of generating fellow-feeling. How does one measure pain and humiliation so as to get even, to get back to equal? People are forced to set prices on things we tell ourselves soporifically are priceless, such as esteem, dignity, life itself. Morality no less than legal remedy involves price-setting. This book flies in the face of all the previous critical literature which, with very few exceptions, imposes simplistic readings on the saga. A translation of the saga is provided as an appendix

     
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    ISBN: 9780198793038
    RVK Categories: GW 6087
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Revenge in literature; Honor in literature; Law in literature; Sagas
    Scope: XV, 257 Seiten, Karten, 24 cm
  2. 'Why is your axe bloody?'
    a reading of Njáls saga
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    ISBN: 9780198768920
    Subjects: Njáls saga;
    Scope: XX, 334 Seiten
  3. The anatomy of disgust
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0674031547; 0674031555
    Edition: 1. Harvard Univ. Press paperback ed., 3. print.
    Subjects: Aversion; Ekel <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: XV, 320 S.
  4. Hrafnkel or the ambiguities
    hard cases, hard choices
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    ISBN: 9780198793038
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða;
    Scope: xv, 257 Seiten, Karten, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  5. Losing it
    in which an aging professor laments his shrinking brain, ...
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9780300171013; 0300171013
    Other subjects: Altern; Literatur; Miller, William Ian, 1946-; Old age.; Aging.; Old age in literature.; Aging in literature.
    Scope: VIII, 328 S.
  6. Outrageous fortune
    gloomy reflections on luck and life
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    This text is a drolly pessimistic and vaguely misanthropic account that gives it a unity of voice, of view, and of several interlaced themes: the scarcity of good, that most of happiness comes in the morally questionable form of Schadenfreude, or is... more

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    This text is a drolly pessimistic and vaguely misanthropic account that gives it a unity of voice, of view, and of several interlaced themes: the scarcity of good, that most of happiness comes in the morally questionable form of Schadenfreude, or is experienced mostly as relief that some expected bad thing did not materialize. It deals extensively with those tinges of ominousness that accompany good luck, and the related widespread belief, or feeling in the gut, that people's mere desires and wishes provoke the gods to thwart their wishes. Are good things subject to a law of conservation, so that they must always be paid for and sum out at just about zero or less?

     
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    ISBN: 9780197530887
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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (192 pages).
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    Also issued in print: 2021

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  7. 'Why is your axe bloody?'
    a reading of Njàls saga
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Njàls saga is acknowledged as the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, and it rightly deserves acclaim as one of the great masterpieces of all times. Miller's reading reveals not only the saga's sublime artistry, but also its pragmatic and tough-minded... more

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    Njàls saga is acknowledged as the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, and it rightly deserves acclaim as one of the great masterpieces of all times. Miller's reading reveals not only the saga's sublime artistry, but also its pragmatic and tough-minded analysis of the complex tactics and strategies that inform feud and law.

     
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  8. Hrafnkel or the ambiguities
    hard cases, hard choices
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. His account of this complex and nuanced saga corrects simplistic readings which have governed... more

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    William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. His account of this complex and nuanced saga corrects simplistic readings which have governed interpretation of the saga in the past.

     
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  9. Hrafnkel or the ambiguities
    hard cases, hard choices
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    ISBN: 9780198793038
    Edition: First edition
    Scope: xv, 257 Seiten
  10. Audun and the polar bear
    luck, law, and largesse in a medieval tale of risky business
    Contributor: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden [u.a.] ; [ProQuest], [Ann Arbor, Michigan]

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    Contributor: Miller, William Ian
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    Series: Medieval law and its practice, ; v. 1
    Scope: xi, 155 p.
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  11. 'Why is your axe bloody?'
    a reading of Njáls saga
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford

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    ISBN: 9780198704843
    Scope: XXIV, 334 S., graph. Darst., Kt.
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    Literaturverz. S. [309] - 318
  12. Hrafnkel or the ambiguities
    hard cases, hard choices
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. 'Hrafnkel' tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a... more

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    William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. 'Hrafnkel' tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex issues with finely layered irony: who can one justifiably hit, when, and by what means? It does this with cool nuance, also taking on matters of torture and pain-infliction as a means of generating fellow-feeling. How does one measure pain and humiliation so as to get even, to get back to equal? People are forced to set prices on things we tell ourselves soporifically are priceless, such as esteem, dignity, life itself. Morality no less than legal remedy involves price-setting. This book flies in the face of all the previous critical literature which, with very few exceptions, imposes simplistic readings on the saga. A translation of the saga is provided as an appendix

     
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    ISBN: 9780198793038
    RVK Categories: GW 6087
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Revenge in literature; Honor in literature; Law in literature; Sagas
    Scope: XV, 257 Seiten, Karten, 24 cm
  13. Law and literature in medieval Iceland
    Ljótsvetninga saga and Valla-Ljóts saga
    Author: Andersson, Theodore M.; Miller, William Ian
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Pr., Stanford, Calif.

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    ISBN: 0804715327
    Subjects: Ljósvetninga saga (anoniem); Saga's; Valla-Ljóts saga (anoniem); Wetten; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Law, Medieval; Literature and society; Sagas; Zeithintergrund; Saga
    Scope: XIV, 329 S., Kt.
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    Literaturverz. S. 303 - 315. - Aus d. Isländ. übers.
  14. <<The>> anatomy of disgust
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0674031547; 0674031555
    Edition: 1. Harvard Univ. Press paperback ed., 3. print.
    Subjects: Ekel <Motiv>; Literatur; Aversion
    Scope: XV, 320 S.
  15. Hrafnkel or the ambiguities
    hard cases, hard choices
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    Subjects: Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða
    Scope: xv, 257 Seiten, Karten, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  16. Bloodtaking and peacemaking
    feud, law, and society in Saga Iceland
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago [u.a.]

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    RVK Categories: PW 9250 ; GW 6070
    Subjects: Island; Streit; Fehde; Recht; Beilegung; Schlichtung; Vergleich <Recht>; Geschichte; Saga; Strafrecht <Motiv>
    Scope: 407 S. : Kt.
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    Bibliography: p375-394. - Includes index
  17. <<The>> anatomy of disgust
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 1997
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    Subjects: Ekel <Motiv>; Literatur; Aversion
    Scope: XV, 320 S.
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    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
  18. The anatomy of disgust
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

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    Subjects: Ekel <Motiv>; Literatur; Aversion
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  19. Bloodtaking and peacemaking
    feud, law, and society in Saga Iceland
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago [u.a.]

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    Subjects: Vergleich <Recht>; Fehde; Streit; Recht; Schlichtung; Beilegung; Strafrecht <Motiv>; Saga
    Scope: 407 S., Kt.
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    Bibliography: p375-394. - Includes index
  20. 'Why is your axe bloody?'
    a reading of Njáls Saga
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to... more

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    Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country, in which both sides are effectively exterminated, Njal and his family burned to death in their farmhouse, the other faction picked off over the entire course of the feud. Law and feud feature centrally in the saga, Njal, its hero, being the greatest lawyer of his generation. No reading of the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its feuding strategies, as well as the author's stunning manipulation and saga conventions. In 'Why is your axe bloody' W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely oriignal personal reading of this lengthy saga

     
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    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Njáls saga; Sagas / History and criticism
    Scope: XXIV, 334 S.
  21. 'Why is your axe bloody?'
    a reading of Njals Saga
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to... more

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    Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country, in which both sides are effectively exterminated, Njal and his family burned to death in their farmhouse, the other faction picked off over the entire course of the feud. Law and feud feature centrally in the saga, Njal, its hero, being the greatest lawyer of his generation. No reading of the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its feuding strategies, as well as the author's stunning manipulation and saga conventions. In 'Why is your axe bloody' W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely oriignal personal reading of this lengthy saga

     
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    ISBN: 1322045305; 9781322045306; 9780191789441; 0191789445; 9780191014918; 0191014915
    Subjects: Sagas; Sagas; Sagas; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; German; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; Scandinavian; Sagas; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  22. Law and literature in medieval Iceland
    Author: Andersson, Theodore M.; Miller, William Ian
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0804715327
    RVK Categories: GW 6087
    Subjects: Ljósvetninga saga; ; Íslendinga sögur; Recht <Motiv>; ; Ljósvetninga saga; ; Valla-Ljóts saga;
    Scope: XIV, 329 S., Kt.
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    Enth.: Ljósvetninga saga. Valla-Ljóts saga
  23. Hrafnkel or the ambiguities
    hard cases, hard choices
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. 'Hrafnkel' tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a... more

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    William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. 'Hrafnkel' tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex issues with finely layered irony: who can one justifiably hit, when, and by what means? It does this with cool nuance, also taking on matters of torture and pain-infliction as a means of generating fellow-feeling. How does one measure pain and humiliation so as to get even, to get back to equal? People are forced to set prices on things we tell ourselves soporifically are priceless, such as esteem, dignity, life itself. Morality no less than legal remedy involves price-setting. This book flies in the face of all the previous critical literature which, with very few exceptions, imposes simplistic readings on the saga. A translation of the saga is provided as an appendix

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780198793038
    RVK Categories: GW 6087
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Revenge in literature; Honor in literature; Law in literature; Sagas
    Scope: xv, 257 Seiten
  24. Outrageous fortune
    gloomy reflections on luck and life
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    This text is a drolly pessimistic and vaguely misanthropic account that gives it a unity of voice, of view, and of several interlaced themes: the scarcity of good, that most of happiness comes in the morally questionable form of Schadenfreude, or is... more

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    This text is a drolly pessimistic and vaguely misanthropic account that gives it a unity of voice, of view, and of several interlaced themes: the scarcity of good, that most of happiness comes in the morally questionable form of Schadenfreude, or is experienced mostly as relief that some expected bad thing did not materialize. It deals extensively with those tinges of ominousness that accompany good luck, and the related widespread belief, or feeling in the gut, that people's mere desires and wishes provoke the gods to thwart their wishes. Are good things subject to a law of conservation, so that they must always be paid for and sum out at just about zero or less?

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780197530887
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    Series: Oxford scholarship online
    Subjects: Life; Miller, William Ian ; 1946-; Life ; Philosphy
    Other subjects: Miller, William Ian (1946-)
    Scope: 1 online resource (192 pages)
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    Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 19, 2020)
  25. Losing it
    in which an aging professor laments his shrinking brain which he flatters himself formerly did him noble service ; a plaint, tragi-comical, historical, vengeful, sometimes satirical and thankful in six parts, if his Memory does yet serve
    Author: Miller, William Ian
    Published: c 2011
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]

    The you behind your eyes is out of date -- Can you recall what you had for dinner, Cronus? -- Shrink wrap -- Old views of old age -- Older, yes, but wiser? -- The dark side of wisdom -- Homo querelus (man the complainer) -- Old saints, old killers,... more

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    The you behind your eyes is out of date -- Can you recall what you had for dinner, Cronus? -- Shrink wrap -- Old views of old age -- Older, yes, but wiser? -- The dark side of wisdom -- Homo querelus (man the complainer) -- Old saints, old killers, and more complaints -- Complaining against the most high -- Giving up smoting for good -- Paralysis of the spirit -- Yes, you can take it with you -- Owing the dead -- Going soft -- Little things; or, what if? -- Defying augury -- Frankly, I do give a damn -- Going through all these things twice -- Do not go gentle: a valediction

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0300171013; 9780300171013
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    RVK Categories: MS 2700
    Subjects: Aging; Old age in literature; Aging in literature; Old age; Altern; Literatur
    Other subjects: Miller, William Ian (1946-)
    Scope: VIII, 328 S., Ill., 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    The you behind your eyes is out of date -- Can you recall what you had for dinner, Cronus? -- Shrink wrap -- Old views of old age -- Older, yes, but wiser? -- The dark side of wisdom -- Homo querelus (man the complainer) -- Old saints, old killers, and more complaints -- Complaining against the most high -- Giving up smoting for good -- Paralysis of the spirit -- Yes, you can take it with you -- Owing the dead -- Going soft -- Little things; or, what if? -- Defying augury -- Frankly, I do give a damn -- Going through all these things twice -- Do not go gentle: a valediction.