Drawing on anthropology and folklore research as much as on literary criticism, The Liminality of Fairies explains the process by which popular beliefs and folklore gave rise to the fairies of medieval romance, tracing both the direct borrowings and the unique literary transformations that fairies undergo in selected romance works.
Drawing on anthropology and folklore research as much as on literary criticism, The Liminality of Fairies explains the process by which popular beliefs and folklore gave rise to the fairies of medieval romance, tracing both the direct borrowings and the unique literary transformations that fairies undergo in selected romance works.
Piotr Spyra is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English Studies, University of Lódź (Poland), where he teaches medieval and early modern English literature. He is the author of The Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet (2014) and a number of articles on medieval English poetry and Renaissance drama.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1 Liminal Fairies: the Anthropological Paradigm Chapter 2 Modes of Liminality in Medieval Romance Chapter 3 The Philosophical Paradigm Chapter 4 The Khoratic Nature of Fairies Chapter 5 The Gift and the Promise: Ambiguity in Khoratic Contracts Chapter 6 Games, Gifts and Taboos: the Art of Rule-Bound Interactions Conclusion
Introduction Chapter 1 Liminal Fairies: the Anthropological Paradigm Chapter 2 Modes of Liminality in Medieval Romance Chapter 3 The Philosophical Paradigm Chapter 4 The Khoratic Nature of Fairies Chapter 5 The Gift and the Promise: Ambiguity in Khoratic Contracts Chapter 6 Games, Gifts and Taboos: the Art of Rule-Bound Interactions Conclusion
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