Good Dragons Are Rare An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West |
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| Editor:
| Chen, Fanfan
Honegger, Thomas |
| Series title: | ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik. eine Schriftenreihe der Universität Leipzig Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-631-58219-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $217.95 |
Book Description:
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Dragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time. Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these fantastic creatures, there have been very few attempts at discussing their appearance, function and development within literary texts. The eighteen essays collected in this volume (8 in French, 6 in German and 4 in English) - written by an international cast of scholars - try to fill this gap by looking at dragons in literature East and...
More DescriptionDragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time. Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these fantastic creatures, there have been very few attempts at discussing their appearance, function and development within literary texts. The eighteen essays collected in this volume (8 in French, 6 in German and 4 in English) - written by an international cast of scholars - try to fill this gap by looking at dragons in literature East and West, contemporary and past.