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  1. Good Dragons are Rare
    An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West
    Author: Schenkel, Elmar
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt a.M. ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Dragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time. Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these fantastic creatures, there have been very few attempts at discussing their appearance, function and... more

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    Dragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time. Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these fantastic creatures, there have been very few attempts at discussing their appearance, function and development within literary texts. The eighteen essays collected in this volume (8 in French, 6 in German and 4 in English) – written by an international cast of scholars – try to fill this gap by looking at dragons in literature East and West, contemporary and past.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Chen, Fanfan; Honegger, Thomas
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783653011913
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    DDC Categories: 800
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik / ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy ; 5
    Subjects: Drache; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Good dragons are rare
    an inquiry into literary dragons East and West
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3631582196; 9783631582190; 9783653011913
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Series: Alph ; Bd. 5
    Subjects: Dragons in literature; Fantasy literature; Drache; Literatur
    Scope: 439 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references
  3. Good dragons are rare
    an inquiry into literary dragons East and West
    Contributor: Chen, Fanfan (Publisher); Honegger, Thomas (Publisher)
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Chen, Fanfan (Publisher); Honegger, Thomas (Publisher)
    Language: English; French; German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783653011913; 3653011914
    Series: Alph ; 5
    Subjects: Dragons in literature; Fantasy literature / History and criticism; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Dragons in literature / (OCoLC)fst00897401; Fantasy literature / (OCoLC)fst00920853; Literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (439 p.), ill
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    Includes bibliographical references

    Table of Contents; Von Babylon bis Eragon: Die Wechselwirkung von Mythos/Literatur und (Natur- )Wissenschaft in der westlichen Drachenvorstellung 1; A good dragon is hard to find: From draconitas to draco 27; Les dragons dans la littérature médiévale européenne: Le dragon, persona non grata 61; Le Fier Baiser: ou comment apprivoiser un dragon (femelle) 77; Spenser's Dragons 97; Was zur Beglaubigung dieser Historie dienen mag: Drachen bei Johann Jacob Scheuchzer 119; Drachen zum Lachen: Der Wandel des Drachenbilds in der spätviktorianischen Literatur 171

    "Not very well-designed creatures"? Terry Pratchetts Drachen zwischen Parodie und Ernst 343From the Western Poeticisation of Falkor and Temeraire to the Imaginary of Chinese Dragons 359; Histoire du Dragon au Japon 383; Hayao Miyazaki et le(s) Dragon(s) de Chihiro 393; Autour des dragons célestes: Astronomie, astrologie, magie et imaginaire en Orient médiéval 419
  4. Good Dragons are Rare
    An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West
    Contributor: Honegger, Thomas (Herausgeber); Chen, Fanfan (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Honegger, Thomas (Herausgeber); Chen, Fanfan (Herausgeber)
    Language: German; English; French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783653011913
    Other identifier:
    9783653011913
    Series: ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik ; 5
    Subjects: Drache; Literatur
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft; (BISAC Subject Heading)LIT006000; (BIC subject category)DSB; Dragons; Tolkien, J. R. R.; (VLB-WN)9569
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 53 fig.
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