2016
Blurring the Lines : Irish Mythology and Symbolism in Nora Roberts’ The Cousin O’Dwyer’s Trilogy'
ŠTEFANSKÁ, PavlaZákladní údaje
Originální název
Blurring the Lines : Irish Mythology and Symbolism in Nora Roberts’ The Cousin O’Dwyer’s Trilogy'
Autoři
ŠTEFANSKÁ, Pavla (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)
Vydání
Traditions & Trajectories of Lov e: The Sixth International Conference on Popular Romance, 23.-25. 6. 2016, Utah, 2016
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Prezentace na konferencích
Obor
60206 Specific literatures
Stát vydavatele
Spojené státy
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14210/16:00090339
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
popular american culture; popular romance; Nora Roberts; mythology; symbolism
Štítky
Změněno: 21. 2. 2018 12:00, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.
Anotace
V originále
Irish lore weaves through Nora Roberts’ romances as a gilded emerald thread, connecting the 200+ books in her oeuvre. Yet, not many analyses of the subject has been written as the field of popular romance studies is new and much territory lies still uncharted. While many of Roberts’ books use Irish mythology and lore to enrich their plots, none of them incorporate the aspect as much as The Cousin O’Dwyer’s Trilogy. Set in contemporary Ireland, the books connect the ancient with the modern. Rich in celtic symbolism and mythology, the stories go beyond Roberts’ usual magick. In Cousins O’Dwyers, Roberts takes the familiar witchery readers come to expect from her other trilogies like The Three Sisters Island or The Circle Series, and builds upon this world, creating stories in which the boundaries between past, present and future, as wellas human and animal, are blurred or almost erased. Building upon an argument from Christina Valeo’s ‘The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic’, this paper aims to analyze Roberts’ use of Irish mythology and symbolism to enhance reader’s experience as well as on the way Roberts fuses the mythological with the conventional to create a narrative which despite its magical elements still speaks to contemporary readers.
Návaznosti
MUNI/A/1143/2015, interní kód MU |
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