Jane Tolmie

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jane Tolmie is involved.

Article

Tolmie, Jane 2003 Goading, ritual discord and the deflection of blame Ritual Language Behaviour, Bax, Marcel (ed.), pp. 287–301 | Article

This article brings some of the discourses of contemporary frame analysis to bear on female incitement — often called goading or whetting (from hvetja ‘to whet’) — in feud structures within several well-known medieval Icelandic family sagas. Broadly speaking, female goading in saga literature is a… read more