Czas, magia oraz danse macabre, czyli metafory śmierci w Pani Mabb Susanny Clarke
Time, Magic and Danse Macabre — the Metaphors of the Death in Susanna Clarke’s Mrs Mabb

Author(s): Mateusz Żebrowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: time;magic;Danse Macabre;Metaphors of the Death;Susanna Clarke;Mrs Mabb
Summary/Abstract: The article refers a metaphor of symbolic death in Susanna Clarke’s short story Mrs Mabb: time, magic, danse macabre. All of them are ingrained in an European culture, especially in ancient Celtic culture, but also in Anglo-Saxon and ancient Greece culture. The references to the “samhain” festival,danse macabre, folklore, Anglo-Saxon and Greece mythologies lead to the conclusion that Mrs Mabb is the short story, which links a lots of motives to exalt a women position in culture.

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