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Unstable Masculinities: Loki, Ergi, ...

Frauman, Alexandria.

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Unstable Masculinities: Loki, Ergi, and Challenges to Heroic Identity in Old Norse Literature.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Unstable Masculinities: Loki, Ergi, and Challenges to Heroic Identity in Old Norse Literature./
作者:	Frauman, Alexandria.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	189 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-05B.
標題:	Scandinavian studies. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28152012
ISBN:	9798684695278

Unstable Masculinities: Loki, Ergi, and Challenges to Heroic Identity in Old Norse Literature.
Frauman, Alexandria.

Unstable Masculinities: Loki, Ergi, and Challenges to Heroic Identity in Old Norse Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 189 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Nuanced and difficult as Loki's character can sometimes be, he is not without precedent in the Old Norse literary tradition. Instead, much of what makes him challenging to pin down reflects the complex and, at times, incongruous rules governing Old Norse masculinity and assumptions about those who trespass against those rules. In calling attention to issues of gender and sexuality surrounding Loki, this dissertation highlights one common thread tying together episodes that place Loki in contradictory roles: as the entity who obtains the tools and resources that keep the AEsir in power and as the outsider who ultimately destroys Asgarðr from the inside out. This study opens with a discussion of Loki's heritage and offspring and how hierarchies of power in the Norse mythological world place Loki and his family in a tenuous, perhaps even dangerous, category of beings. It explores how this precariousness is linked, in part, to Loki's split loyalties between the AEsir and jotnar family groups and goes on to suggest that this liminality allows him to navigate between borders and boundaries and behave in ways the rest of the god group often cannot. The dissertation then turns towards one specific barrier Loki moves between, namely the expectations dividing "manly" and "unmanly" or ergi behavior. Loki's disregard for gender roles reveals much about both the importance and the shortcomings of those roles and norms in Old Norse mythic literature. Similar episodes of ergi in Old Icelandic saga literature deepen our understanding not just of Loki, but also of the function of gender in Old Norse literature at large and of the anxieties and challenges plaguing Iceland during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when these texts were being recorded and circulated.

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