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.
Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Fairies in medieval romance
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.
Fairies in medieval romance
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.
This is a one-stop resource for courses in medieval literature, providing students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; and, major critical approaches a…
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