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Middle English marvels : magic, spectacle, and morality in the fourteenth century / Tara Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 176 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271081762
  • 9780271081786
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR321 .M533 2018
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Contents:
Mirroring otherworlds : fairy magic, wonder, and morality -- Revealing spectacles : virtue and identity in fair unknowns -- Moving marvels : action and agency in courtly spectacles -- Talking magic : chaucer's spectacles of language -- Conclusion : how marvels matter.
Subject: "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"--Provided by publisher.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR321 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1032611979

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : why marvels matter -- Mirroring otherworlds : fairy magic, wonder, and morality -- Revealing spectacles : virtue and identity in fair unknowns -- Moving marvels : action and agency in courtly spectacles -- Talking magic : chaucer's spectacles of language -- Conclusion : how marvels matter.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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