The Myth of Morgan la Fey by Kristina Pérez

This book is more smart and stylish than you will often find in a book of medieval scholarship, thus more interesting to read. Your use of the translations is subject to all use restrictions contained in your Electronic Products License Agreement and by using the translation functionality you agree to forgo any and all claims against ProQuest or its licensors for your use of the translation functionality and any output derived there from.Very well-written, engaging, soundly-researched, and a wonderful distillation of the many forms and manifestations of this intriguing and provocative legend.

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You have requested 'on-the-fly' machine translation of selected content from our databases. The amateur Arthurian would need a good deal of patience to take these on board. The 'Morgan' figure is analysed in the opening chapters as representing the 'Oresteian Mother', a Good Mother/Bad Mother figure, and Morgan is thereafter assimilated to different aspects of the Oresteian Mother, and other archetypal roles, drawn from a variety of theoretical orientations. Morgan le Fay is identified with a succession of female figures from very different cultures, eras, and literatures: ranging from Irish Sovereignty and other goddesses, the female figures of the Mabinogion, Loathly Ladies, Breton fairy mistresses, Mélusine, the mother of Gawain, the Lady of the Lake, and so on. In essence, however, the book is an old-fashioned 'Goddess'-study of the type that was popular in the 1990s.

These in their turn produce a series of portentous capitalizations: 'Woman', 'Mother', 'Veil', 'Sensory Disability'. 185), jostle against dense analyses framed by a range of complex theoretical positions. The style is often uncertain: overfamiliar turns of phrase, of the kind which I would red-pencil in undergraduate work, such as 'Today, perhaps more than ever, there is an incredible amount of tension surrounding the definitions of 'wife' and 'mother'' (p. This is a peculiar book, apparently intended for both the scholar and the amateur enthusiast, and probably satisfying neither. Kristina Perez, The Myth of Morgan La Fey, Arthurian and Courtly Cultures (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

The Myth of Morgan la Fey by Kristina Pérez