Traditional Romance and Tale: How Stories Mean

This stimulating and controversial book suggests an original approach to the study of traditional literature, focussing on medieval romance and on folktale [especially fairytale]. Although a number of new and striking interpretations of such stories are offered, the emphasis is on how they 'work' - how stories mean, rather than what individual stories mean.
Dr Wilson observes that such stories have survived for many centuries, though they are conspicuously lacking in everyday logic. She arg...