Piotr Spyra

The Liminality of Fairies (eBook, PDF)

Readings in Late Medieval English and Scottish Romance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000092738
• Artikelnr.: 59447159

Autorenporträt

Piotr Spyra is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English Studies, University of Lódz (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