Folklore's ancient witch and demon figures fascinate us as they continue to materialize in literature with a vitality belying their age. Seeing these folkloric images as crucial metaphors in Hardy's works - as manifest expressions of human sexual aggression and as archetypal projections from his characters' unconscious - this study explores the tyranny they exercise over their victims. The book also vigorously pursues the astonishing truths Hardy unearths through these shape-shifting energies and through his use of related folk beliefs such as omens, weather lore, and healing rituals that draw the reader irresistibly into his charmed Wessex world.
| ISBN: | 9780820420929 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 1993 |
| Author: | Gayla R Steel |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 146 pages |
| Series: | American University Studies. |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Language teaching theory and methods Society and culture: general Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology) Behaviourism, Behavioural theory |
Folklore's ancient witch and demon figures fascinate us as they continue to materialize in literature with a vitality belying their age. Seeing these folkloric images as crucial metaphors in Hardy's works - as manifest expressions of human sexual aggression and as archetypal projections from his characters' unconscious - this study explores the tyranny they exercise over their victims.
Sexual Tyranny in Wessex features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Language teaching theory and methods, Society and culture: general, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), Behaviourism, Behavioural theory
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Sexual Tyranny in Wessex was written by Gayla R Steel and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Sexual Tyranny in Wessex has 146 pages
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