Blurring the Lines : Irish Mythology and Symbolism in Nora
Roberts’ The Cousin O’Dwyer’s Trilogy'

k 2016

Blurring the Lines : Irish Mythology and Symbolism in Nora Roberts’ The Cousin O’Dwyer’s Trilogy'

ŠTEFANSKÁ, Pavla

Základní 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

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/16:00090339

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

popular american culture; popular romance; Nora Roberts; mythology; symbolism

Štítky

rivok

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

Název: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě (Akronym: VZALL)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

ŠTEFANSKÁ, Pavla. Blurring the Lines : Irish Mythology and Symbolism in Nora Roberts’ The Cousin O’Dwyer’s Trilogy'. In Traditions & Trajectories of Lov e: The Sixth International Conference on Popular Romance, 23.-25. 6. 2016, Utah. 2016.

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ŠTEFANSKÁ, Pavla. Blurring the Lines : Irish Mythology and Symbolism in Nora Roberts’ The Cousin O’Dwyer’s Trilogy'. In \textit{Traditions \&{} Trajectories of Lov e: The Sixth International Conference on Popular Romance, 23.-25. 6. 2016, Utah}. 2016.

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