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.
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Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Type: Book
Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Type: Book
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))
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Type: Book
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.
Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manif…
Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manif…
Shakespeare's Demonology draws attention to the difficulty in categorizing terms that thrive on ambiguity and by their very essence aer undefinable. The dictionary definesdemonological terms in relation to the literature, theology and social practices of Shakespeare's time and o…
This volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and spirits.