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dc.contributor.authorBydder, Jilleneen_NZ
dc.coverage.spatialSydney, Australiaen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-04T21:13:47Z
dc.date.available2016-12en_NZ
dc.date.available2017-01-04T21:13:47Z
dc.date.issued2016-12en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationBydder, J. (2016). The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason. In Peer Reviewed Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) (pp. 52–60). Wellington, New Zealand: POPCAANZ.en
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-473-38284-1en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/10831
dc.description.abstractArnaldur Indriðason’s Erlendur novels are popular crime fiction stories set in Iceland. Detective Erlendur Sveinsson’s team deals with serious crimes, murders, and missing persons. Their cases are contemporary, but Indriðason has always said that he is influenced as a writer by the medieval Icelandic sagas. How is this illustrated by his crime fiction? The sagas, like crime fiction, contain stories of murder, revenge, love, loss and family conflicts. The paper uses examples from the novels and the sagas to examine the links between them. These links include the importance of traditional and local stories and the significance of fate. The paper also describes how Erlendur’s character develops over the series until he becomes an archetypical saga hero.en_NZ
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPOPCAANZen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://popcaanz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FICTION_Bydder-2016_Erlendur.pdfen_NZ
dc.rightsThis article is published in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ). © 2016 Copyright with the author.
dc.source7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)en_NZ
dc.subjectArnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic crime fiction, Icelandic sagas, Detective Erlendur Sveinsson, fate in literatureen_NZ
dc.subjectIcelandic crime fiction
dc.subjectIcelandic sagas
dc.subjectDetective Erlendur Sveinsson
dc.subjectfate in literature
dc.titleThe detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðasonen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contribution
dc.relation.isPartOfPeer Reviewed Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)en_NZ
pubs.begin-page52
pubs.elements-id144869
pubs.end-page60
pubs.finish-date2016-07-01en_NZ
pubs.place-of-publicationWellington, New Zealanden_NZ
pubs.publisher-urlhttp://popcaanz.com/conference-proceedings-2016/en_NZ
pubs.start-date2016-06-29en_NZ


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