Sagas and genre: A case for application of network analysis to manuscripts preserving Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature.

This study applies statistical approaches to the analysis of the genre relationships of Old Norse-Icelandic literature in order to expand our understanding of the relationships between works, their transmission, and their possible modes of reception, as manifested in the extant manuscripts. This art...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 1130 - 1145
Autores principales: Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, Wills, Tarrin
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2023
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          Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna
          Wills, Tarrin
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          Linacre College and Faculty of English, University of Oxford , UK
          Dictionary of Old Norse Prose, University of Copenhagen , Denmark
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        Online databases
        Literary form
        Manuscripts
        Data visualization
        Literature
        Statistics
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          Data visualization
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      ab: This study applies statistical approaches to the analysis of the genre relationships of Old Norse-Icelandic literature in order to expand our understanding of the relationships between works, their transmission, and their possible modes of reception, as manifested in the extant manuscripts. This article contributes to the ongoing discussion of the genre boundaries of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and presents an alternative method of engaging with this material in the form of computer-assisted analysis, i.e. data visualization and network analysis. Using data collected from major online databases of Old Norse-Icelandic manuscripts, we present the most complete to date network of co-occurrences in manuscripts of works belonging to a number of literary genres. The present study empirically demonstrates the manifoldness of the connections between the Old Norse-Icelandic works which transcend traditional scholarly genre boundaries. The study identifies two main communities within the network: a community of romances, or works of narrative fiction, which includes mainly legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur) and chivalric sagas (riddarasögur), and a community of historicizing narratives, or pseudo-history, which includes mainly sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) and kings' sagas (konungasögur).
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