The dragon: fear and power
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| Abstract: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | Rezensiert in: Mediaevistik 32 (2019), Seite 254-255 (Albrecht Classen) |
| Umfang: | 328 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 1780238975 9781780238975 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction: The Origin of Dragons 7
one Dragons in Greek and Roman Mythology 13
two Dragons in the Bible and Saints Lives 43
three The Germanic Dragon, Part 1: Old Norse Mythology and
Old English Literature 77
four The Germanic Dragon, Part 2: Sagas of Ancient Times 97
five Dragons in Bestiaries and Celtic Mythology 119
six Asian and East Asian Dragons 135
seven Dragons in the Anti-establishment Folktale 171
eight European Dragons as Fictions and Facts: From Medieval
Romance to the Nursery Dragon 191
nine The Old Dragon Revives: J+R*R* Tolkien and C* S+ Lewis 225
ten A Wilderness of Dragons 239
eleven George R+ R* Martins Dragons and the
Question of Power 259
Conclusion: The Dragon and Fear 275
REFERENCES ZSl
BIBLIOGRAPHY 311
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 321
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 322
INDEX 323
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| contents | 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 |
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