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Loathly Ladies

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Modern Fairies
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Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the loathly lady: the hideous hag who knows the secret that the hero seeks, and whom he must learn how to respect.
In the last podcast of the current series, Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss the figure of the loathly lady. Sometimes transformed through her own agency, sometimes the victim of a spell, she knows the secret of what women really want; can the hero who marries her put his new-found knowledge into practice? We also talk about monstrously transformed women; those who await the hero with the courage to look beyond appearances to the inner beauty of the beast.

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Series
Modern Fairies
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Carolyne Larrington
Fay Hield
Brian McMahon
Keywords
loathly ladies
folklore
women
folksong
ballads
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 26/02/2019
Duration: 00:27:44

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