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  1. Werewolves in Old Norse-Icelandic literature
    between the monster and the man
    Author: Su, Minjie
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium

    At the heart of any story of metamorphosis lies the issue of identity, and the tales of the werwulf (lit. ‘man-wolf’) are just as much about the wolf as about the man. What are the constituents of the human in general? What symbolic significance do... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    At the heart of any story of metamorphosis lies the issue of identity, and the tales of the werwulf (lit. ‘man-wolf’) are just as much about the wolf as about the man. What are the constituents of the human in general? What symbolic significance do they hold? How do they differ for different types of human? How would it affect the individual if one or more of these elements were to be subtracted? Focusing on a group of Old Norse-Icelandic werewolf narratives, many of which have hitherto been little studied, this insightful book sets out to answer these questions by exploring how these texts understood and conceptualized what it means to be human. At the heart of this investigation are five factors key to the werewolf existence —skin, clothing, food, landscape, and purpose — and these are innovatively examined through a cross-disciplinary approach that carefully teases apart the interaction between two polarizations: the external and social, and the interior and psychological. Through this approach, the volume presents a comprehensive new look at the werewolf not only as a supernatural creature and a literary motif, but also as a metaphor that bears on the relationship between human and non-human, between Self and Other, and that is able to situate the Old-Norse texts into a broader intellectual discourse that extends beyond medieval Iceland and Norway.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 9782503596006
    Series: Borders, boundaries, landscapes ; volume 3
    Subjects: Werwolf; Literatur; Altnordisch
    Other subjects: Old Norse literature / History and criticism; Werewolves in literature
    Scope: 225 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Dissertation, University of Oxford, 2020
  2. Werewolves in Old Norse-Icelandic literature
    between the monster and the man
    Author: Su, Minjie
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium

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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    GE 2023/1508
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    Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Bibliothek
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    Frei122-G11/294
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    Diözesanbibliothek Münster
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    23:0326
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    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
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    EJ 150.220
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9782503596006; 2503596002
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    9782503596006
    RVK Categories: GW 6070 ; GW 1012
    Series: Borders, boundaries, landscapes ; volume 3
    Subjects: Old Norse literature; Werewolves in literature
    Scope: 225 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Dissertation, University of Oxford, 2020