The Perilous Hunt: Symbols in Hispanic and European Balladry

In the symbolic language of ballads, a lady's costly dress tells of the beauty of the body beneath it or of the wearer's happiness; a lost hawk or hound foreshadows the hunter's fate long before the plot reaches a turning point. In her original and far-reaching study of such familiar narrative elements, Edith Randam Rogers adds much to our understanding of poetic expression in the ballad tradition. In focusing on individual motifs as they appear in different ballads, different languages, and di

Author: Edith Randam Rogers
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9780813154350
ISBN10: 0813154359
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | Spanish & Portuguese
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
- Literary Criticism | Poetry

About the Author

Edith Randam Rogers is professor of Spanish at the University of Colorado at Denver.

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