Thor: Myth to Marvel - Couverture souple

Arnold, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1441135421 ISBN 13 : 9781441135421

Editeur : Continuum, 2011

Synopsis

The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. Thor's significance persisted long after the Christian conversion and, in the mid-eighteenth century, Thor resumed a symbolic prominence among northern countries. Admired and adopted in Scandinavia and Germany, he became central to the rhetoric of national romanticism and to more belligerent assertions of nationalism. Resurrected in the latter part of the twentieth century in Marvel Magazine, Thor was further transformed into an articulation both of an anxious male sexuality and of a parallel nervousness regarding American foreign policy. Martin Arnold explores the extraordinary regard in which Thor has been held since medieval times and considers why and how his myth has been adopted, adapted and transformed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martin Arnold is Professor of Scandinavian Literature at Hull University. He is the author of The Vikings (Continuum, 2006).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1441135421
• ISBN 13: 9781441135421
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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