Good Dragons are Rare
An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West
©2009
Edited Collection
VIII,
442 Pages
Summary
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 West, contemporary and past.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 442
- Publication Year
- 2009
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653011913
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631582190
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-01191-3
- Language
- French
- Publication date
- 2012 (March)
- Keywords
- hobbit Dragons Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2009. VIII, 442 pp., 53 fig.
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