Dr%20Gareth%20Lloyd%20Evans: List of publications

This article suggests that skaldic verse — as a direct result of its famously complex formal features — is able to encode and convey complex, dynamic emotional interiorities in ways that move beyond the possibilities of saga prose. Through a close analysis of Sigvatr Þórðarson’s lausavísa 20 that is attuned to the temporal nature of reading, it is shown that common features of skaldic poetics — including dislocated syntax, tmesis, and obscure and ambiguous diction — can function to stage the unfolding of emotion through time and to evoke the oscillation between, and synthesis of, varied emotional states.

Focuses on the representation of masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders and comprehensively interrogates the construction, operation, and problematization of masculinities in this genre.

<p style="text-align:justify;"> Scholarship on postmodern literary experiments tends to hail modes of textuality that deviate from the contemporary norm of the printed page and the codex as new and revolutionary. But such attitudes to emergent literary forms fail to recognise medieval precursors to these apparently new developments. Indeed, regarding these works as an experimental—and therefore novel—aspect of (post)modern literary production contributes to a larger trend, ultimately a function of the periodisation of literature, in which the medieval is seen as entirely Other to the modern. As a result of this conceptual break, postmodern literary experiments tend to enact, and embody, an unwitting return to medieval modes of textuality. </p>