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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Fairies"”.
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Reaching for Fairies
<p><em>Reaching for Fairies</em> is a New Adult fiction novel about the slow process of healing from generational trauma in young adulthood. The story is told through a close-third person perspective focused on the inner thoughts of Cadence Marsh, an insightful and people-pleasing 20-year-old with …
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In Fairyland Or Thereabout: The Fairies as Nationalist Symbol in Irish Literature by and after William Allingham
… as well as historically approaches the use of fairies in the popular culture of the nineteenth century. In Chapter I, I use an historical approach to discuss the biography of William Allingham and his place in Irish literature as a poet we have neglected. I also discuss a cultural study of the …
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"Away with the fairies": the motif of fairy abduction and of the changeling, from Irish mythology to the Irish diaspora
This project aims at analysing the reuses of the motif of fairy abduction and of the changeling in contemporary literature, either Irish or from the Irish diaspora. Studying these motifs as they appear in the folk accounts allows a better understanding of their traditional characteristics, to then …
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The Many Disguises of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Fairies, and the Symbolist Movements in Art and Literature)
While fairies and Sherlock Holmes may not seem to have much in common, both were thought to be real by many Victorians. Most people are unaware that in addition to the Sherlock Holmes series, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote what he considered a non-fiction book expressing his belief in supernatural …
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Upon Clamorous Wings: A Study of the Symbolism in the Lyrical and Dramatical Poetry of William Butler Yeats
… is that a young man has claimed to have seen the fairies. Now, Mr. Yeats would be the last one to impugn such a remark, but — as much as he would have liked to see the fairies — he would never claim having introduced the "faeries" to Ireland. | We must accept Mr. Yeats for what he is, for what he …
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Comedy and the supernatural on the English stage between 1589 and 1621 : a study of the relevance for early modern audiences of comic representations of magic, fairies and witchcraft
… practices did the comic representation of magic, fairies and witchcraft have for an early modem audience? This study will approach this main question through the consideration of two subsidiary questions. What is the cultural context for a series of comic, or partly comic, representations of the …
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Filid, Fairies and Faith: The Effects of Gaelic Culture, Religious Conflict and the Dynamics of Dual Confessionalisation on the Suppression of Witchcraft Accusations and Witch-Hunts in Early Modern Ireland, 1533 – 1670
… culture. Additionally, the persistent belief in fairies as the source of harmful magic remained untainted by Christianity throughout most of Ireland. Faeries were never successfully demonized in Ireland as they were in Scotland. The Gaelic Irish attributed to fairies most of the misfortunes that …
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Legends of the lakes of Wales : thematic classification and analysis.
… into three main categories, namely legends of fairies, legends of catastrophes and legends of magic and ghosts. Finally, the analyses of the tales consisted of identifying relevant folklore motifs, trying to fit them into a historical context within the Celtic world. That process opened the way …
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The power of belief: Innocents and innocence in children's fantasy fiction
… an imagined reality onto a physical reality. Fairies are brought back from thedead, destinies are divined through a golden compass, phantom stags lead the way to hidden swords. This thesis explores the power of belief and its associations with the innocence of childhood as found in J.M. …
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
… of select supernatural beings - e.g. angels, fairies, demons and revenants - in select medieval texts, no study has yet attempted to articulate or model the literary operations of such figures in terms of a unifying narratological scheme. This thesis proposes the typological category of …
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'What are ye, little mannie?': the Persistence of Fairy Culture in Scotland,1572-1703 and 1811-1927
… whether beliefs and legends surrounding fairies in the early modern era continued into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a single culture system, or whether the Victorian fairy revival was a distinct cultural phenomenon. Based on contextual, physical, and behavioral …
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
… in fantastic encounters with werewolves, demons, fairies, and other supernatural figures. “Hoc Est Corpus Meum” argues that many of these narratives reflect and reinforce the eucharistic teachings circulating in northern France at the time, with which the courtly and clerical audiences would be …
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The Crooked End of Nowhere: Fantastic Fiction and its Adoption of the Gothic and Uncanny
… drags on, a young girl named Agatha learns that fairies might be taking the town for themselves. Finally, in my third chapter I reflect upon my creative work, outlining where I fit within the genre, the process of revision, and the obstacles I faced while writing.</p>
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Magic and the supernatural in eighteenth-century Wales: the world of the Rev. Edmund Jones (1702-1793)
… of which is his writing on apparitions, spirits, fairies, and magic in his Geographical, Historical, and Religious Account of the Parish of Aberystruth (1779) and Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the Principality of Wales (1780). <br/><br/>These works were not merely written for an …
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Regards sur l’Être et le Paraitre dans Trois Portraits du XVIIe Siècle
… nobles are gods and goddesses-when they are not fairies-and life is a vast performance where self-image and representation are tirelessly adjusted because the observer is looking to catch what is behind the façade. At court or in Salons, gazes interpret more than what is on display because they …
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'I see you have quite gone over to the supernaturalists' : the spiritual and scientific Arthur Conan Doyle
… unusual phenomena, including the existence of fairies and spiritualism. Through a reading of Doyle’s autobiographical, medical, detective, imperial and science fictions this thesis traces his scientific trajectory from gothicised supernatural to spiritualism. It considers how mental illness and …
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Object lessons: sensory science education 1830-1870
… geological past; wondrous tales of forces and fairies that fired childish imaginations to rethink the commonplace objects of the world form the focus of chapter two; hands-on domestic activities appear in the third chapter, which explores household chemistry via tasting tea and smelling soap; …
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"Oberon's Henchman; Or The Legend of The Three Sisters" by Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Critical Edition
<p>This thesis provides a critical edition of M.G. Lewis's "Oberon's Henchman" with an introduction to the text that recontextualizes the poem within its historical milieu. The introduction also presents a critical reading of the text, arguing that Lewis's pastiche is a carefully orchestrated, …
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ΤΑ ΦΟΒΗΤΡΑ ΤΩΝ ΛΑΙΚΩΝ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΕΩΝ ΣΕ ΜΙΑ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΑΓΡΟΤΙΚΗ ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑ
ΚΑΤΟΠΙΝ ΕΠΙΤΟΠΙΑΣ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΗΣ 160 ΑΝΤΙΠΡΟΣΩΠΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΑΦΗΓΗΣΕΩΝ, ΣΤΟ Μ. ΜΟΝΑΣΤΗΡΙ (ΧΩΡΙΟ ΠΡΟΣΦΥΓΩΝ ΕΞ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΗΣ ΡΩΜΥΛΙΑΣ ΣΤΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΚΟ ΚΑΜΠΟ), ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΕΙΤΑΙ Η ΔΙΕΙΣΔΥΣΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΥΦΗ ΤΩΝ ΥΠΕΡΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΦΟΒΗΤΡΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΛΑΙΚΗΣ ΔΟΞΑΣΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΣΩ ΑΥΤΗΣ Η ΕΞΕΤΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΓΟΗΤΕΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΦΟΒΟΥ. …