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"Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-century audiences with a taste for action-packed tales of love and adventure" -- Provided by publisher.
Introduction: internal folklore -- Fairies and humans between possible worlds -- Avalon: simulacra and fictional facts -- Beyond orthodoxy: tests and quests -- Fairy mistresses: gifts and taboos -- Concllusion.
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
This book offers new approaches for thinking about the narrative possibilities of fairies in medieval romance, from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie to Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur.
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
This text constructs a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.