Tulinius, Torfi
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Trauma, Healing, and Poetry in the Icelandic Sagas
In this lecture, Torfi Tulinius discussed the dialectics of revenge and poetry in thirteenth-century life and literature and its relationship to the trauma of loss, both personal and collective.
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Mixed Emotions: The Trouble with Royal Blood in Laxdæla saga
Through an analysis of the plot of Laxdæla saga, especially in its relationship to the competition between overlords in Iceland during the Sturlung period (mid-thirteenth century), Torfi Tulinius proposed a new reading of the saga based on medieval ideas of royal blood.
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Gaining Control and Losing It. Masculinity and Trauma in a 13th-Century Icelandic Saga
Eyrbyggja saga or the Saga of the People of Eyri (Penguin Classics 2003) is not as well known as Njáls saga, Grettis saga or Laxdæla Saga. It is nevertheless one of the most interesting and sophisticated literary works of medieval Iceland. Composed in the thirteenth century, it presents itself as a chronicle of events purported to have taken place in the peninsula of Snæfellsnes in western Iceland from the late ninth century to shortly after the year 1000 CE. It is much more.
As a commentary, conscious or unconscious, of the tumultuous period in which it was written, as a remarkable example of the interlacing of narrative threads into a meaningful whole, and finally as a witness to its author’s sense of structure and poetic expression, it deserves to be studied and admired. I will approach this unique work of art through a discussion of its representation of masculinity and its tribulations, some of which are quite traumatic.
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The Stranger. Who is the Criminal in Arnaldur Indriðasonʼs stories?
This Beck lecture provides an exploration of Arnaldur Indriðasonʼs Erlendur novels from a psychoanalytic perspective.
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