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Good Dragons are Rare : An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West (New ed)

Chen, Fanfan(Edited by)Honegger, Thomas(Edited by)
Part of the Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approaches to Literary Phantasy series
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Dragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time.

Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these fantastic creatures, there have been very few attempts at discussing their appearance, function and development within literary texts.

The eighteen essays collected in this volume (8 in French, 6 in German and 4 in English) - written by an international cast of scholars - try to fill this gap by looking at dragons in literature East and West, contemporary and past.

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Peter Lang AG
3631582196 / 9783631582190
Paperback / softback
25/08/2009
Switzerland
442 pages
148 x 210 mm, 810 grams
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