Middle English Marvels

Middle English Marvels

Tara Williams

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Penn State University Press
Año de edición:
2019
Materia
Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9780271079646
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A multidisciplinary interpretation of representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances, and how these texts link magic, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. By representing supernatural marvels in vivid visual detail, these texts encourage reactions of wonder that have moral effects within and beyond the narrative. 6

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