Traditional Romance and Tale: How Stories Mean

by Anne Deirdre Wilson

This stimulating and controversial book suggests an original approach to the study of traditional literature, focussing on medieval romance and on folktale [especially fairytale]. Although a number of new and striking interpretations of such stories are offered, the emphasis is on how they 'work' - how stories mean, rather than what individual stories mean.
Dr Wilson observes that such stories have survived for many centuries, though...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859910210
• ISBN13: 9780859910217
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"