Folklore And The Fantastic In Nineteenth Century British Fiction


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Folklore And The Fantastic In Nineteenth Century British Fiction


Folklore And The Fantastic In Nineteenth Century British Fiction
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Author : Jason Marc Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15

Folklore And The Fantastic In Nineteenth Century British Fiction written by Jason Marc Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.


Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.



Folklore In British Literature


Folklore In British Literature
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Author : Sarah R. Wakefield
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006

Folklore In British Literature written by Sarah R. Wakefield and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with English fiction categories.


Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women's writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and «Cinderella» to make threatening women unreal and thus harmless. Because supernatural creatures change constantly, a name or story from folklore merely reinforces fears about empire, labor, and desire. To illustrate these fascinating rhetorical strategies, this book explores works by Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Sydney Owenson, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Anne Thackeray, and Jean Ingelow, pushing our understanding of allusions to folktales, fairy tales, and myths beyond «happily ever after.»



Mast Of Rods And Strings


Mast Of Rods And Strings
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Author : Jason Marc Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-06

Mast Of Rods And Strings written by Jason Marc Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with categories.


Jealous of the attention lavished upon the puppetry talents of his dear sister-and tormented by visions of her torture at the hands of the mysterious Uncle Pavan who recruited her for his arcane school-Elias is determined to learn the true nature of occult puppetry, no matter the hideous costs, in order to exact vengeance.



The Gothic Fantastic In Nineteenth Century Russian Literature


The Gothic Fantastic In Nineteenth Century Russian Literature
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Author : Neil Cornwell
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1999

The Gothic Fantastic In Nineteenth Century Russian Literature written by Neil Cornwell and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fantasy in literature categories.


From the contents: From Pantheon to Pandemonium (Richard Peace). - Karamzin's Gothic tale: The Island of Bornholm (Derek Offord). - Alessandra TOSI: At the origins of the Russian Gothic novel: Nikolai Gnedich's Don Corrado de Gerrera (1803) (Alessandra Tosi). - Does Russian Gothic verse exist? The Case of Vasilii Zhukovskii (Michael Pursglove). - The fantastic in Russian Romantic prose: Pushkin's The Queen of Spades (Claire Whitehead).



Staging Fairyland


Staging Fairyland
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Author : Jennifer Schacker
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-17

Staging Fairyland written by Jennifer Schacker and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.


In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as "pantomime" was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories. Rowdy, comedic, and slightly risqué, pantomime productions were situated in dynamic relationship with various forms of print and material culture. Popular fairy-tale theater also informed the production and reception of folklore research in ways that are often overlooked. In Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children’s Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime, Jennifer Schacker reclaims the place of theatrical performance in this history, developing a model for the intermedial and cross-disciplinary study of narrative cultures. The case studies that punctuate each chapter move between the realms of print and performance, scholarship and popular culture. Schacker examines pantomime productions of such well-known tales as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "Jack and the Beanstalk," as well as others whose popularity has waned—such as, "Daniel O’Rourke" and "The Yellow Dwarf." These productions resonate with traditions of impersonation, cross-dressing, literary imposture, masquerade, and the social practice of "fancy dress." Schacker also traces the complex histories of Mother Goose and Mother Bunch, who were often cast as the embodiments of both tale-telling and stage magic and who move through various genres of narrative and forms of print culture. These examinations push at the limits of prevailing approaches to the fairy tale across media. They also demonstrate the degree to which perspectives on the fairy tale as children's entertainment often obscure the complex histories and ideological underpinnings of specific tales. Mapping the histories of tales requires a fundamental reconfiguration of our thinking about early folklore study and about "fairy tales": their bearing on questions of genre and ideology but also their signifying possibilities—past, present, and future. Readers interested in folklore, fairy-tale studies, children’s literature, and performance studies will embrace this informative monograph.



B Aloideas


B Aloideas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

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Folklore And The Fantastic In Twelve Modern Irish Novels


Folklore And The Fantastic In Twelve Modern Irish Novels
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Author : Marguerite Quintelli-Neary
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1997-12-09

Folklore And The Fantastic In Twelve Modern Irish Novels written by Marguerite Quintelli-Neary and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-09 with Literary Criticism categories.


Ireland has a rich mythological tradition that stretches back for centuries, and much of this folklore tells tales of the fantastic. During the Irish Renaissance, authors such as William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory resurrected Irish folklore in their literary and dramatic works, thus restoring the popularity of Irish myth and legend. Since the Irish Renaissance, many Irish authors have continued to incorporate Celtic folklore in their novels. This book examines how various conventions from Irish folklore have been subsumed in twelve Irish novels published between 1912 and 1948, including works by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Mervyn Wall, Darrell Figgis, Eimar O'Duffy, and James Stephens. The volume explores how these writers have incorporated in their own works such conventions as heroic obligations, metamorphoses, and the blending of pagan and Christian myths. In an episodic overview of Joyce's Ulysses, specific Irish source works are discussed, including the Irish imram or sea voyage, and the bruidhean adventure, or entrapment episode. The conventions of geis, metamorphosis, and the Ossianic tradition are studied in Finnegans Wake, alongside a traditional Irish ballad, The Annals of the Four Masters, and the Acallamh na Senórach In Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds,/i> and The Third Policeman, an innovative approach to parody is shown. Mervyn Wall operates as a sometimes unwitting commentator on Irish hero tales, via comic irony and inverted motifs, while Darrell Figgis recalls the passing of Celtic heroic traditions in his bitter satire of Saint Patrick and Ois^D'in's legendary dispute, in The Return of the Hero. Eimar O'Duffy's satire of modern Ireland mourns the end of Celtic heroic values in a fantasy that is overwhelmingly pessimistic in tone, while James Stephens extols the virtues of the imagination in The Crock of Gold and The Demi-Gods.



Bront Studies


Bront Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

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The Victorian Supernatural


The Victorian Supernatural
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Author : Nicola Bown
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-02-05

The Victorian Supernatural written by Nicola Bown and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-05 with Art categories.


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That Other World


That Other World
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Author : Princess Grace Irish Library. International Conference
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998

That Other World written by Princess Grace Irish Library. International Conference and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


As with every other region of Europe and the world, the traditional folklore of Ireland abounds with tales involving the supernatural and the fantastic, but nowhere else have these tales so influenced the literature and the shaping of that country, and no other country has produced so many world-famous authors whose work has shown those influences.