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A Kingdom of Dreams

Judith McNaught
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Author : Judith McNaught
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501145483

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author continues her evocative Westmoreland Dynasty Saga with this romance following two defiant hearts clashing over a furious battle of wills in the glorious age of chivalry. Abducted from her convent school, headstrong Scottish beauty Jennifer Merrick does not easily surrender to Royce Westmoreland, Duke of Claymore. Known as “The Wolf,” his very name strikes terror in the hearts of his enemies. But proud Jennifer will have nothing to do with the fierce English warrior who holds her captive, this handsome rogue who taunts her with his blazing arrogance. Boldly she challenges his will—until the night he takes her in his powerful embrace, awakening in her an irresistible hunger. And suddenly Jennifer finds herself ensnared in a bewildering web…a seductive, dangerous trap of pride, passion, loyalty, and overwhelming love.

Never Seduce a Scot

Maya Banks
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Author : Maya Banks
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345536037

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Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks Pdf

Maya Banks, the New York Times bestselling author of romance and romantic suspense has captivated readers with her steamy Scottish historical novels, perfect for fans of Julie Garwood. Never Seduce a Scot features a remarkable woman whose rare gift teaches a gruff Scottish warrior how to listen with his heart. Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her “touched.” Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn’t speak. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her as daft. But when an arranged marriage into a rival clan makes Graeme Montgomery her husband, Eveline accepts her duty—unprepared for the delights to come. Graeme is a rugged warrior with a voice so deep and powerful that his new bride can hear it, and hands and kisses so tender and skilled that he stirs her deepest passions. Graeme is intrigued by the mysterious Eveline, whose silent lips are ripe with temptation and whose bright, intelligent eyes can see into his soul. As intimacy deepens, he learns her secret. But when clan rivalries and dark deeds threaten the wife he has only begun to cherish, the Scottish warrior will move heaven and earth to save the woman who has awakened his heart to the beautiful song of a rare and magical love.

Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance

K.S. Whetter
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Author : K.S. Whetter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317004929

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Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance by K.S. Whetter Pdf

Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur. K.S. Whetter offers an original approach to these issues by prefacing a comprehensive study of romance with a wide-ranging and historically diverse study of genre and genre theory. In doing so Whetter addresses the questions of why and how romance might usefully be defined and how such an awareness of genre-and the expectations that come with such awareness-impact upon both our understanding of the texts themselves and of how they may have been received by their contemporary medieval audiences. As an integral part the study Whetter offers a detailed examination of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, a text usually considered a straightforward romance but which Whetter argues should be re-classified and reconsidered as a generic mixture best termed tragic-romance. This new classification is important in helping to explain a number of so-called inconsistencies or puzzles in Malory's text and further elucidates Malory's artistry. Whetter offers a powerful meditation upon genre, romance and the Morte which will be of interest to faculty, graduate students and undergraduates alike.

English Medieval Romance

William Raymond Johnston Barron
English Medieval Romance Book PDF

Author : William Raymond Johnston Barron
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : UOM:39076000894332

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English Medieval Romance by William Raymond Johnston Barron Pdf

Starting with the European roots of romance, Dr Barron devotes the main body of his book to a detailed study of the English corpus. He discusses its rich variety of forms in the later Middle Ages, concluding that the English romances show their own conception of the romantic `mode'.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Roberta L. Krueger
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Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521556872

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger Pdf

This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.

Medieval Romance

James F. Knapp,Peggy A. Knapp
Medieval Romance Book PDF

Author : James F. Knapp,Peggy A. Knapp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487501914

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Medieval Romance by James F. Knapp,Peggy A. Knapp Pdf

Medieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre's fictional worlds

The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance

Carol Falvo Heffernan
The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance Book PDF

Author : Carol Falvo Heffernan
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859917959

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The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance by Carol Falvo Heffernan Pdf

A study of romance and the Orient in Chaucer and in anonymous popular metrical romances. The idea of the Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance, and this new study reveals much about its use and significance, setting the literature in its historical context and thereby offering fresh new readings of anumber of texts. The author begins by looking at Chaucer's and Gower's treatment of the legend of Constance, as told by the Man of Law, demonstrating that Chaucer's addition of a pattern of mercantile details highlights the commercial context of the eastern Mediterranean in which the heroine is placed; she goes on to show how Chaucer's portraits of Cleopatra and Dido from the Legend of Good Women, read against parallel texts, especially in Boccaccio, reveal them to be loci of medieval orientalism. She then examines Chaucer's inventive handling of details taken from Eastern sources and analogues in the Squire's Tale, showing how he shapes them into the western form ofinterlace. The author concludes by looking at two romances, Floris and Blauncheflur and Le Bone Florence of Rome; she argues that elements in Floris of sibling incest are legitimised into a quest for the beloved, and demonstrates that Le Bone Florence be related to analogous oriental tales about heroic women who remain steadfast in virtue against persecution and adversity. Professor CAROL F. HEFFERNAN teaches in the Department ofEnglish, Rutgers University.

Nine Medieval Romances of Magic

Marijane Osborn
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Author : Marijane Osborn
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781551119977

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Nine Medieval Romances of Magic by Marijane Osborn Pdf

In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.

The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe

Lydia Zeldenrust
The M lusine Romance in Medieval Europe Book PDF

Author : Lydia Zeldenrust
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845218

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The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe by Lydia Zeldenrust Pdf

Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of M lusine - a beautiful fairy woman cursed to transform into a half-serpent once a week, whose part-monstrous sons are the ancestor of several European noble houses. This study is the first to consider how this romance developed from a local legend to European bestseller, analysing versions in French, German, Castilian, Dutch, and English. It addresses questions on how to study medieval literature from a European perspective, moving beyond national canons, and reading M lusine's bodily mutability as a metaphor for how the romance itself moves and transforms across borders. It also analyses key changes to the romance's content, form, and material presentation - including its images - and traces how the people who produced and consumed this romance shaped its international transmission and spread. The author shows how M lusine's character is adapted within each local context, while also uncovering previously unknown connections between the different branches of this multilingual tradition. Moving beyond established paradigms of separate national traditions, manuscript versus print, and medieval versus Renaissance literature, the book integrates literary analysis with art historical and book historical approaches. LYDIA ZELDENRUST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

The Beginnings of Medieval Romance

Dennis Howard Green
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Author : Dennis Howard Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521813990

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The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

Laura Ashe,Ivana Djordjević,Judith Elizabeth Weiss,Ivana Djordjevic
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance Book PDF

Author : Laura Ashe,Ivana Djordjević,Judith Elizabeth Weiss,Ivana Djordjevic
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842125

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The Exploitations of Medieval Romance by Laura Ashe,Ivana Djordjević,Judith Elizabeth Weiss,Ivana Djordjevic Pdf

As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe

The Medieval Romance of Alexander

Jean Wauquelin
The Medieval Romance of Alexander Book PDF

Author : Jean Wauquelin
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843320

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The Medieval Romance of Alexander by Jean Wauquelin Pdf

The figure of Alexander the Great haunted the medieval imagination - as much as Arthur, as much as Charlemagne. His story was translated more often in medieval Europe than any work except the Gospels. Yet only small sections of the Alexander Romance have been translated into modern French, and Nigel Bryant's is the first translation into English. The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great is Jehan Wauquelin's superb compendium, written for the Burgundian court in the mid-fifteenth century, which draws together all the key elements of the Alexandrian tradition.With great clarity and intelligence Wauquelin produced a redaction of all the major Alexander romances of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries - including the verse Roman d'Alexandre, The Vows of the Peacock and La Venjance Alixandre - to tell the whole story of Alexander's miraculous birth and childhood, his conquests of Persia and India, his battles with fabulous beasts and outlandish peoples, his journeys in the sky and under the sea, his poisoning at Babylon and the vengeance taken by his son. This is an accomplished and exciting work by a notable writer at the Burgundian court who perfectly understood the appeal of the great conqueror to ambitious dukes intent upon extending their dominions. Nigel Bryant has translated five major Arthurian romances from medieval French, including Perceforest in which Alexander features prominently. He has also translated the fourteenth-century chronicles of Jean le Bel.

Medieval Romance

James F. Knapp,Peggy A. Knapp
Medieval Romance Book PDF

Author : James F. Knapp,Peggy A. Knapp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487514211

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Medieval Romance by James F. Knapp,Peggy A. Knapp Pdf

Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility. Medieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre’s fictional worlds. James F. Knapp and Peggy A. Knapp uniquely utilize Leibniz’s “possible worlds” theory, Kant’s aesthetic reflections, and Gadamer’s writings on the apprehension of language over time, to bring the romance genre into critical dialogue with fundamental questions of philosophical aesthetics, modal logic, and the hermeneutics of literary transmission. The authors’ compelling and illuminating analysis of six instances of medieval secular writing, including that of Marie de France, the Gawain-poet, and Chaucer demonstrates how the extravagantly imagined worlds of romance invite reflection about the nature of the real. These stories, which have delighted readers for hundreds of years, do so because the impossible fictions of one era prefigure desired realities for later generations.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Roberta L. Krueger
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance Book PDF

Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825498

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger Pdf

This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.

Scott, Chaucer, and Medieval Romance

Jerome Mitchell
Scott Chaucer and Medieval Romance Book PDF

Author : Jerome Mitchell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813186405

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Scott, Chaucer, and Medieval Romance by Jerome Mitchell Pdf

While the influence of Shakespeare on Sir Walter Scott has long been recognized, the importance of medieval literature in shaping his creative imagination has never before been examined in depth. Jerome Mitchell's new book fills this significant gap through a wide-ranging study of Scott's indebtedness to Chaucer and to medieval romance, especially the Middle English romances, for story-patterns, motifs, character types, style and structure, and detail. Mitchell establishes more completely and accurately than any previous critic the extent of Scott's knowledge of medieval literature. His examination of Scott's poetry, especially the long narrative poems, demonstrates their debt to Chaucer and medieval romance. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of the Waverley Novels. Scott's debt to medieval literature, Mitchell shows, was vast, profound, and elemental; it is the single most important source area for the Waverley Novels, their warp and woof. Moreover, it is probably the key to Scott's immense appeal—the very dimension which enabled him to cast an everlasting spell on his contemporaries, even on such great men as Byron and Goethe, and which has charmed generations of readers to the present day. This pioneering book, based on extensive research in Scotland, including Sir Walter Scott's personal library, sheds new light on the narrative substance and texture of Scott's poems and novels. Both the general reader and the serious student will derive from it a more informed appreciation of Scott's impressive achievement.