Mating Habits of the Common Draccus: Community and the Subversion of the Dragon Theme in "The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller’s Chronicle") by Patrick Rothfuss
Mating Habits of the Common Draccus: Community and the Subversion of the Dragon Theme in "The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller’s Chronicle") by Patrick Rothfuss

Author(s): Maria Błaszkiewicz
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: dragon; quest; subversion; folk tale; fantasy; Rothfuss
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the subversive folk-tale conventions of overcoming the monster in the unfinished fantasy cycle "The Kingkiller’s Chronicle" by the American writer Patrick Rothfuss, where an intriguing dragon episode in the first part of the series, "The Name of the Wind", calls for an interpretation and invites the reader to use it as a key to the understanding of the nature of the narrative. The significance of the community as both a character in the story and the narratee of the fairy tale seems to be a major clue in the present investigation.

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