"Flashing into the crystal mirror" : the recurrence of the mirror motif in three Arthurian works
When constructing “The Lady of Shalott”, Tennyson resorts to the medieval atmosphere of King Arthur’s court to set a poem in which the development of the action is dictated by the pervasive force of a mirror. This object, which controls the Lady’s fate, is the one that rules the sense of...
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Language: | English |
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Universidad de Alicante
2004-11-01
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Series: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses |
Online Access: | https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2004-n17-flashing-into-the-crystal-mirror-the-recurrence-of-the-mirror-motif-in-three-arthurian-works |