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Examining how we interpret Welshness today, this volume brings together fourteen essays covering a full range of representations of Welsh mythology, folklore, and ritual in popular culture. Topics covered include the twentieth-century fantasy fiction of Evangeline Walton, the Welsh presence in the films of Walt Disney, Welshness in folk music, video games, and postmodern literature. Together, these interdisciplinary essays explore the ways that Welsh motifs have proliferated in this age of cultural cross-pollination, spreading worldwide the myths of one small British nation.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction: Re-Imagining Wales AUDREY L. BECKER and KRISTIN NOONE      Celtic Studies and Modern Fantasy Literature C.W. SULLIVAN III      “The Rough, Savage Strength of Earth”: Evangeline Walton’s Human Heroes and Mythic Spaces KRISTIN NOONE      Branwen’s Shame: Voicing the Silent Feminine in Evangeline Walton’s The Children of Llyr NICOLE A. THOMAS      Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton’s The Virgin and the Swine: Fantasy Meets the Social Protest Fiction of the 1930s DEBORAH HOOKER      “An Age-Old Memory”: Arthur Machen’s Celtic Redaction of the Welsh Revival in The Great Return GEOFFREY REITER      Magical Goods, “Orphaned” Exchanges, Punishment and Power in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi SUSANA BROWER      The Hand at the Window: Twm Siôn Cati, the Welsh Colonial Trickster JONATHAN EVANS and STEPHEN KNIGHT      An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African-American Wedding Ritual TYLER D. PARRY      Constructing Myth in Music: Heather Dale, King Arthur and “Culhwch and Olwen” MEGAN MACALYSTRE      Torchwood’s “Spooky-Do’s”: A Popular Culture Perspective on Celtic Mythology LYNNETTE R. PORTER      Everyday Magic: Howl’s Moving Castle and Fantasy as Sociopolitical Commentary CAROLYNN E. WILCOX      Loosely Based: The Problems of Adaptation in Disney’s The Black Cauldron JEFF HICKS      We’re Not in Cymru Anymore: What’s Really Happening in the Online Mabinogi CLAY KINCHEN SMITH      Temporality, Teleology and the Mabinogi in the Twenty-First Century AUDREY L. BECKER      Further Reading      About the Contributors      Index     

About the Author :
Audrey L. Becker is an assistant professor of English literature at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan. She writes on the intersection between Renaissance literature and cultural studies. Kristin Noone is an English instructor and writing center faculty at Irvine Valley College in Southern California; her research interests include medievalism and adaptation, heterotemporalities, superheroes, fantasy and the fantastic, and popular romance, and she has published on topics from ethics in the work of Terry Pratchett to the symbolism of Dean Winchester’s pie in Supernatural.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780786461707
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 234
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 322 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0786461705
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 33 Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • Sub Title: Essays on Adaptations in Literature, Film, Television and Digital Media
  • Width: 152 mm


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