Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0664663

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0664663

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Writing from the edge of the world: medieval Icelandic literature and the quest for social identity. This project has special significance for Australians. Iceland and Australia are both geographically isolated communities, both originally colonies of larger political powers (Norway and Britain), both asserting a social identity different from that of the motherland. Many themes of medieval Icelandic literature have parallels in Australian culture; slogans like 'the cultural cringe', 'the lucky country', 'home and away' can be readily paralleled in Old Icelandic literature. Our study will be of considerable social benefit to Australia and will show how another ex-colony, remote in time and place, constructed its own social identity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 13-02-2006

End Date: 12-02-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $258,172.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | Other European | Folklore, Myth And Mythologies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Studies in human society

Other Keywords

Folklore, Myth And Mythologies | Literary Studies | Other European | Studies in human society

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