MAL MARIÉE: The stock character in medieval romances, lais, and fabliaux of an unhappily married wife, often married to a senex amans. Or a capital letter as opposed to minuscule. MAIAR: Semidivine spirits in Tolkien's Silmarillion. The very premise of the story reveals much of the flavor Instead to keep the supernatural being captive in a chickenĬoop. The old man as an angel who had come down to claimīut who had been knocked out the sky by storm winds during Trapped face-down in the muddy shore of the beach, weighedīuzzard wings attached to his back. Story, "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," a narrativeĪ fisherman discovers a filthy, lice-ridden old man (and one of my own personal favorites in postmodern narrative) Truly dreamlike and bizarre effects in their prose. Stories with gritty Hemingway-esque detail. In time and setting, "labyrinthine narratives and plots" and "arcaneĮrudition" (135), and often they combine myths and fairy These postmodern writers mingle and juxtapose realisticĮvents with fantastic ones, or they experiment with shifts The influence also spread later to Günter Grassġ35). Gabriel Garcia Márquez in Colombia, and Alejo Carpentier In the 1940s and 1950s, the term migrated to the Or backdrop, giving them an outlandish, odd, or even dream-like These painters blended realistic, smoothly painted, sharplyĭefined figures and objects-but in a surrealistic setting Realismus in German) to a group of neue Saqchlichkeit painters The arrival of the Dionysiac rites in Greece.įirst applied the term "magic realism" ( magischer Some myths men and children!), rip them apart bare-handed,Īnd then eat the flesh raw. They would run through the forest nakedĪfter the ceremonies and would catch small animals (or in In legendary accounts, such women were supernaturally strongĪnd wildly violent. "bacchae" for these priestesses, a feminine plural form of the god Bacchus' name. Process of stylized frenzied dancing in order to achieveĪt the height of the frenzy, they believed that they wouldīecome one with Dionysus/Bacchus, thus the common Latin name Worshippers would get drunk on wine and then undergo an all-night Maenads were female worshippers of Dionysus or See discussion under periphrasis.Ī diacritical mark in the form of a horizontal line indicating "big language" or "long language"): Also called macrology, in rhetoric, a negative term for a type of periphrasis involving unnecessary repetition of lengthy clauses. Of flora and fauna, weather, and celestial objects such as the The natural universe as a whole, including the biological realms Pepys frequently mingles Spanish and Latin words in the text Period would be the steamier scenes of Samuel Pepys' diary Involve bilingual vocabulary and grammatical switches withinĪ single sentence, or in alternating lines or paragraphs, or Or Latin and German-is said to be macaronic. Written in a jumble of several languages-say a mixture of Of Gloucester in Richard III and Edmund and Cornwall Plays associated with sinister plots, blackest betrayal, and (also spelled machiavel): A villain, especially an ItalianĪristocratic power-monger, or a deceitful betrayer, who behavesĪccording to the principles established by Niccoló Machiavelli.Ībove.) The machievelle became a stock character in many Of their state and their own personal power. Ruthless individuals willing to do anything to ensure the The rulers that have remained in power have not been kindly,īenevolent men concerned with justice and fairness, but rather On the evidence of history and his own personal observations, Rulers often must engage in evil (or at least immoral) activities In contrast to the medieval ideal of the ruler as God's holyĭeputy and dispenser of justice, Machiavelli stressed that Political advisor who worked for the Borgia family in Italy. This work was writtenīy Nicco ló Machiavelli, an early sixteenth-century With power who puts on a surface veneer of honor and trustworthyīehavior in order to achieve evil ends. Legends important in Celtic studies generally and in ArthurianĪs an adjective, the word refers generally to sneaky, ruthless,Īnd deceitful behavior, especially in regard to a ruler obsessed Mabinogion, a medieval collection of Welsh myths and "Four Branches"): The four branches or four parts of The Use it as a touchstone for important conceptsĪnd vocabulary that we will cover during the term.
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