Aisling Byrne

Otherworlds

Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Otherworlds offers a new perspective on the otherworlds depicted in British and Irish medieval literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780198833956
• ISBN-10: 0198833954
• Artikelnr.: 56788002

Autorenporträt

Aisling Byrne studied at University College Dublin and St John's College, Cambridge. She has published on the transmission and translation of romance, on writers such as Gerald of Wales and Thomas Malory, and on themes such as marvels, feasting, chivalry, and territorial politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Worlds within Worlds
1: Imagining Otherworlds
2: Otherworlds and the Afterlife
3: Supernatural Authorities
4: Archipelagic Otherworlds
Conclusion: Points of Departure