Middle English Marvels : Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century /

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"A multidisciplinary interpretation of representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances, and how these texts link magic, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. By representing supernatural marvels in vivid visual detail, these texts encourage reactions of wonder that have moral eff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Williams, Tara, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Romances, English.
Marvelous, The, in literature.
Magic in literature.
Literature and morals.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Litterature et morale.
Merveilleux dans la litterature.
Magie dans la litterature.
Roman courtois anglais > Histoire et critique.
Romances, English > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : why marvels matter
  • Mirroring otherworlds : fairy magic, wonder, and morality
  • Revealing spectacles : virtue and identity in fair unknowns
  • Moving marvels : action and agency in courtly spectacles
  • Talking magic : chaucer's spectacles of language
  • Conclusion : how marvels matter.

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