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Welsh mythology and folklore in popular culture : essays on adaptations in literature, film, television, and digital media
Title
Welsh mythology and folklore in popular culture : essays on adaptations in literature, film, television, and digital media / edited by Audrey L. Becker and Kristin Noone.
ISBN
9780786461707 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786461705 (softcover : alk. paper)
Published
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
"Examining how we interpret Welshness today, this volume brings together fourteen essays that examine the range of representations of Welsh mythology, folklore, and ritual in popular culture. Together, these interdisciplinary essays explore the ways that Welsh motifs have proliferated in this age of cultural cross-pollination, spreading worldwide the myths of one small British nation"--Provided by publisher.
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Series
Critical exploration in science fiction and fantasy ; 33
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: re-imagining Wales / Audrey Becker and Kristin Noone
Celtic Studies and Modern Fantasy / C.W. Sullivan III
"The Rough, Savage Strength of Earth": Evangeline Walton's Human Heroes and Mythic Spaces / Kristin Noone
Branwen's Shame: Voicing the Silent Feminine in Evangeline Walton's The Children of Llyr / Nicole A. Thomas
Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton's The Virgin and the Swine: Fantasy Meets the Social Protest Fiction of the 1930s / Deborah Hooker
"An Age-Old Memory": Arthur Machen's Celtic Redaction of the Welsh Revival in The Great Return / Geoffrey Reiter
Magical Goods, "Orphaned" Exchanges, Punishment, and Power in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi / Susana Brower
The Hand at the Window: Twm Sin Cati, the Welsh Colonial trickster / Jonathan Evans and Stephen Knight
An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African-American Wedding Ritual / Tyler D. Parry
Constructing Myth in Music: Heather Dale, King Arthur, and "Culhwch and Olwen" / Megan MacAlystre
Torchwood's "Spooky-Do's": A Popular Culture Perspective on Celtic Mythology / Lynnette R. Porter
Everyday Magic: Howl's Moving Castle and Fantasy as Sociopolitical Commentary / Carolynn E. Wilcox
Loosely Based: The Problems of Adaptation in Disney's The Black Cauldron / Jeff Hicks
We're Not in Cymru Anymore: What Is Really Happening in the Online Mabinogi / Clay Kinchen Smith
Temporality, Teleology, and the Mabinogi in the Twenty-First Century / Audrey Becker.
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