Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth

Tales of Belonging

• Author(s): Kath Filmer-Davies,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 177
• ISBN_10: 1349249912
  ISBN_13: 9781349249916
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Social Science / Sociology / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... This book examines how contemporary fantasy literature offers critical insights into western society and culture by drawing on the ancient myths of Wales. These books emphasise the need to have a set of social and personal values in order to be free from a sense of dislocation and alienation in a highly technologised society and in order to satisfy the sense of 'hiraeth' or longing for a place where one truly belongs.