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The Irish Fairy Tale - A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens (Paperback)
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The Irish Fairy Tale - A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens (Paperback)
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Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of "fairy tale"
and extending it to include categories and genres which are in
common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws
light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It
illuminates the fundamental ways in which a culture is formed,
while highlighting important features of the Irish narrative
tradition, in all its wealth and variety and in its connections
with the mythical and historical events of Ireland. The Irish Fairy
Tale argues that the fairy tale is a kind of "neutral zone," a
place of transition as well as a meeting place for popular beliefs
and individual creativity, oral tradition and literary works,
historical sources and imaginary reconstructions, and for
contrasting and converging views of the world, which altogether
allow for a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of reality.
The book focuses on stories by Yeats and Stephens, whose approach
to the subject marks the culmination of a long tradition of
attempts at linking past and present and of bridging the gap
between what appear to be contradictory facets of a single culture.
This leads to a comparative study of Joyce's Dubliners, which
illustrates the universal and exemplary nature of the notion of
fairy tale put forward in the work.
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