Thomas Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends: A Revaluation

Auteurs

  • Heinz Kosok University of Wuppertal

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v3i1p63-76

Résumé

The aim of this paper is to revaluate the achievements of Thomas Crofion Croker as a collector of native legends and traditions of the South West of Ireland and as one of the precursors of twentieth-century short fiction in Ireland. The publication of Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland in 1825 inspires the Grimms' to develop Comparative Folklore Studies, One of Croker's stories, "The Soul Cages" is analysed here to show the way he strategically shaped his narratives improving the traditional oral storytelling technique.

Biographie de l'auteur

  • Heinz Kosok, University of Wuppertal

    HEINZ KOSOK is Professor of Literatures in English at the University of Wuppertal. PhD. Dissertation on Herman Melville, "habilitation" (postdoctorate degree) with a book on Sean O'Casey. In the period of 1973 and 1974 he was Dean of Faculty of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wuppertal and, from 1982 to 1985 was Chairman of IASIL.

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Publiée

2001-06-01

Numéro

Vol. 3 (2001): ABEI Journal 3

Rubrique

Fiction

Licence

(c) Copyright Heinz Kosok 2001

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Ce travail est disponible sous licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d’Utilisation Commerciale 4.0 International.

Comment citer

Kosok, H. (2001). Thomas Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends: A Revaluation. ABEI Journal, 3(1), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v3i1p63-76