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In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

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In Search of First Contact is a monumental achievement by the influential literary critic Annette Kolodny. In this book, she offers a radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas. She contends that they are the first known European narratives about contact with North America. After carefully explaining the evidence for that conclusion, Kolodny examines w... More
Book Information
PublisherDuke University Press
BindingPaperback (2 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages448
ISBN-100822352869
ISBN-13978-0822352860
Publication Date05/29/2012
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About Annette Kolodny (Author) : Annette Kolodny is credited in . A published credit of Annette Kolodny is The Blithedale Romance (Penguin Classics).
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6/11/2012 Peni Griffin said: What is it about Americans and "first" anyway? No such thing...
tags: I read in galley

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