... Family Sagas. They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). There are some forty in total (this being, for instance, the number translated in The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, 1997). Collectively, ... there, though she said she could see that it would not help him much, since he was a wanted man throughout the land. Grettir said she would not have any trouble on his account, 'but I'm not going to go on living if it means being alone ' Scenes often, but not ... the narrati...

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... " a "direct contradiction" of the claims of "poststructuralist" theories reducing the world to language. "Ecocriticism responds," Newman argues, "by insisting on the independent reality of the nonlinguistic material world." However, in order to locate "the nonlinguistic material world" in Thoreau's writing, Newman draws upon ... will hold, and it will give the imagination keen pleasure." (18) In "Poetry and Imagination," the aging Emerson (with editorial help from his literary executor James Elliot Cabot) seems merely to have mined the same argument he made for the emblematic nature of th...

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