Perception of women of the Arthurian legend in the Middle Ages and in the twentieth century
The dissertation tries to show that while in the Middle Ages the central characters of the Arthurian legend were the male heroes and the females played a rather marginal role, this view changed in twentieth-century rewritings. Writers such as T. H. White or Marion Zimmer Bradley approach the legend...
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| Typ dokumentu: | VŠ práce nebo rukopis |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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2007
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| On-line přístup: | http://is.muni.cz/th/145224/ff_b/ |
| Shrnutí: | The dissertation tries to show that while in the Middle Ages the central characters of the Arthurian legend were the male heroes and the females played a rather marginal role, this view changed in twentieth-century rewritings. Writers such as T. H. White or Marion Zimmer Bradley approach the legend in a new way even though White preserves the male point of view as opposed to Bradley, who concentrates on the women and their different perception of the events and heroes |
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| Popis jednotky: | Vedoucí práce: Milada Franková |
| Fyzický popis: | 42 l. |