Otherworlds/Otherness : The Cultural Politics of Exoticism in the Middle English 'Breton' Lays
- Author / Editor
- Oldmixon, Katherine Durham.
Otherworlds/Otherness : The Cultural Politics of Exoticism in the Middle English 'Breton' Lays
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 62:1009A, 2001.
- Description
- Fourteenth-century English Breton lays, such as "Sir DegareĢ," "Sir Orfeo," and FranT, displace "Celtic" otherworlds to Brittainy and depict them as exotic, feminine, and supernatural-places of self-discovery that contrast with the domestic and familiar in the formation of the English character.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.