Barbara Leavy: 2 books
by Barbara Leavy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
* * Aside from Ruth Rendell's brilliance as a fiction writer, and her appeal to mystery lovers, her books portray a compelling, universal experience that her readers can immediately relate to, the intra-familial stresses generated by the nuclear family. Even those who experience the joys as...
In Search of the Swan Maiden
A Narrative on Folklore and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds.
--The New York Times Book Review
This is a study of the...