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The horse in literature and film : uncovering a transcultural paradigm /
This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Middle Ages until the present, covering works from Eastern and Western cultures, the book examines the deep symbolic meaning, cultural signi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Ecocritical theory and practice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Horse Paradigm
- Everyday Life and Its Disruptions. Germany. Horses at the Frontier: Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas
- Russia. Horse and Nature: Leo Tolstoy's Kholstomer [Strider]
- Iceland. Saga Horses: Benedikt Erlingsson's Hross í oss [Of Horses and Men]
- War and Peace. Spain. Horses as Gift: Cantar de Mio Cid [Poem of the Cid]
- Japan. Horses as the Real: Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha [The Shadow Warrior]
- Children and Young Adult Literature: Peace Horse, War Horse, Novel by Michael Morpurgo; Play by Nick Stafford
- Authenticity and Inauthenticity. England. Alchemical Horse: D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr
- USA. Horse as Home: The Misfits, Film by John Huston; Script by Arthur Miller
- India. Postcolonial Horse: Girish Karnad's Hayavadana [Head of a Horse]
- Conclusion: Horse Balance.