عنوان

The dragon :

شابک

1780238975

شابک

9781780238975

شابک اشتباه

9781780239415

عنوان اصلي

The dragon :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

fear and power /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Martin Arnold.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Reaktion Books,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2018.

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2018

نام خاص و کميت اثر

328 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations (chiefly color) ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-320) and index.

متن يادداشت

Introduction: the origin of dragons -- Dragons in Greek and Roman mythology -- Dragons in the Bible and saints' lives -- The Germanic dragon, Part 1: old Norse mythology and old English literature -- The Germanic dragon, Part 2: sagas of ancient times -- Dragons in beastiaries and Celtic mythology -- Asian and East Asian dragons -- Dragons in the anti-establishment folktale -- European dragons as fictions and facts: from medieval romance to the nursery dragon -- The old dragon revives: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis -- 'A wilderness of dragons' -- George R.R. Martin's dragons and the question of power -- Conclusion: the dragon and fear.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled mankind for thousands of years. From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation's Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial authority in ancient China to those dragon-women posing a threat to male authority, dragons have a wide variety of forms and meanings. But there is one thing they all have in common: our fear of their formidable power and, as a consequence, our need to overcome them, to appease them or in some way to assume their power as our own. How can this be explained? Is it our need to impose order on chaos in the person of a dragon-slaying hero? Is it our terror of Nature unleashed in its most destructive form? Or is the dragon nothing less than an expression of that greatest and most disturbing mystery of all - our mortality? Martin Arnold traces the history of ideas about dragons, from the earliest of times to Game of Thrones, and asks what exactly it might be in our imaginations that appears to have necessitated such a creature.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9781780239415

موضوع مستند نشده

Dragons.

موضوع مستند نشده

Dragons.

موضوع مستند نشده

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Folklore & Mythology.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Arnold, Martin,1951-

تاريخ عمليات

20200823052848.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y