Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth: Tales of Belonging

ISBN-13: 9780333650295 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 177 str.

K Filmer Davies

Opis

This book examines how contemporary fantasy literature offers critical insights into western society and culture by drawing on the ancient myths of Wales. These books emphasise the need to have a set of social and personal values in order to be free from a sense of dislocation and alienation in a highly technologised society and in order to satisfy the sense of 'hiraeth' or longing for a place where one truly belongs.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Welsh Myth in Fiction: A Place of the Mind and the Spirit - Welsh Myth and the Sense of Belonging - Eternal Triangles and the Cycles of Myth - Reconstructing the Present for the Stories of the Past - Children from Dysfunctional Families: Instruments of Mythic Healing - The Place of the Pig-Keeper: to Know Oneself - Arthurian Novels and the Spirit of the Welsh Place - Belonging and the Right of Possession: Children's Novels - Welsh Myth in Historical Novels - The Film Hero and Welsh Mythology - Myth, Theology and Belonging - Notes - Index