God on the Margins: Dislocation and Transience in the Myths of Óðinn

Wanner, Kevin J.

doi:10.1086/518812

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“…on the process. In Durkheim's history of reception, this has already 51 Somewhat similarly, Wanner (2007); cf. Perhaps it is even difficult to speak of end-products at all when it comes to the movements between narrative and life that are so crucial to religions (cf.…”

Section: Discussion: Miracle Narrative Ambiguity and Disordermentioning

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Religious narrative and the literary fantastic: ambiguity and uncertainty in Ex. 1–18

Feldt

2011

Religion

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This paper presents a perspective for the analysis of the literary form of myth drawn from literary-critical theories of the fantastic and fantasy. The aim is to demonstrate the value of such analyses for understanding what a religious narrative is and what it doesas an addition to existing approaches (phenomenological, historical, structuralist, formalist, and so on.) To achieve this aim, the paper presents a fantasy-theoretical case study of the Exodus narrative from the Hebrew Bible (Ex. 1-18). The analysis shows that this narrative of the fantastic events at Israel's exodus from Egypt confounds distinctions (natural/supernatural, benign/malign, self/other, hope/horror), generates varied reactions in the personae, foregrounds the uncertainty and ambiguity of the events, and points to its own artifice. The literary strategies are shown to have effects that are apt to unsettle, disturb and fascinate; effects that are both semantic and affective, mobilising the recipients in the interpretation of the status, veracity and meaning of the fantastic events. Proposals are then made about the literary fantastic as a fruitful analytical perspective specifically for narratives about metamorphoses and miracles, and about incorporating destabilisation, uncertainty and ambiguity more strongly into theories of what a religious narrative is and does in the study of religion.

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Section: Discussion: Miracle Narrative Ambiguity and Disordermentioning

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Religious narrative and the literary fantastic: ambiguity and uncertainty in Ex. 1–18

Feldt

2011

Religion

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Movement and Stasis in Hárbarðsljóð

Braithwaite-Westoby

2023

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia

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Pre-Christian Eschatological Motifs in the Ukrainian Dumas and Spiritual Verses and Their Germanic Parallels

Rakhno

2024

Religions

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The Ukrainian folklore genres least studied in a mythological context are the epic songs: dumas and spiritual verses. In particular, it is possible to find concepts of the beginning and the end of the world in these works. In many aspects, they are close to the Old Germanic ones, especially concerning the mythological connection between natural cataclysms and the breaking of family ties, as shown by several archaic examples. This article deals with these cosmogonic and eschatological notions in Ukrainian and Scandinavian epics. The author points to a similar outlook in both epic traditions and a similarity in emotional and evaluative identifications of events. These parallels must be owed to Germano-Slavic contacts in the early Middle Ages.

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God on the Margins: Dislocation and Transience in the Myths of Óðinn

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Religious narrative and the literary fantastic: ambiguity and uncertainty in Ex. 1–18

Religious narrative and the literary fantastic: ambiguity and uncertainty in Ex. 1–18

Movement and Stasis in Hárbarðsljóð

Pre-Christian Eschatological Motifs in the Ukrainian Dumas and Spiritual Verses and Their Germanic Parallels

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