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This two-volume Autobiography by Cornelia Knight (1757-1837) was published in 1861. It was compiled by the military historian Sir John Kaye from her journals and a memoir based on them, written late in life and remaining incomplete at her death. Cornelia Knight, the daughter of an admiral, was highly educated: she knew ten languages, was skilled at painting and drawing, and published novels and poetry. In 1813 she was appointed to the household of Princess Charlotte of Wales. In 1814, the Prince Regent dismissed all his daughter's attendants, and Knight returned to a life of literature and European travel. Volume 1 covers her childhood, time spent in Italy with Sir William and Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson, her appointment as companion to Princess Charlotte, the princess's refusal, in 1814, to marry the Prince of Orange, and the subsequent events which led to Knight's dismissal.

Ladies-in-waiting --- Knight, Ellis Cornelia, --- Courts and courtiers --- Queens --- Knight, E. Cornelia --- Knight, Cornelia, --- Knight,

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CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), d. 1400 --- KNIGHT'S TALE --- CANTERBURY TALES --- THE KNIGHT --- KNIGHT, THE

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- Versification --- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- Versification

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The tale of the mysterious knight carried across the water by a swan to the woman he saves and marries is one of the great narrative traditions of the Middle Ages. The version in the German Lohengrin (ca.1300) is perhaps the most striking. It captures the imagination with the appearance of the epic poet Wolfram von Eschenbach as narrator, the changing forms of the swan, and Lohengrin's appearance as a warrior alongside Saints Peter and Paul. In the past, however, Lohengrin has been dismissed as an awkward amalgamation of earlier sources - partly due to more recent retellings of the material, such as Wagner's opera. This first monograph on Lohengrin in English presents a new response to the challenges the text poses. It is a study of how we read narrative across temporal distance, and at its heart lies the question: if a story is not held together by the chronological and causal links characteristic of modern narratives, how does it cohere? Alastair Matthews analyzes both the invocations of Wolfram that frame the text and the story of the Swan Knight that they enclose, arguing that Lohengrin is defined by a web of connections in which questions ofidentity and recognition are crucial, and thus that the themes at the core of the tale govern how it is told. Alastair Matthews, DPhil Oxford, is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark.

Lohengrin. --- Knights and knighthood in literature. --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Lohengrin --- Swan-knight (Legendary character) --- Loengrin --- Loenhrin --- Loennkrin --- Loherangrin --- Helyas --- Knight of the Swan --- Rōengurin --- Swan-Knight --- ローエングリン --- Лоэнгрин --- Лоенгрин --- Лоенгрін --- לוהנגרין --- Λόενγκριν --- Chevalier au cygne

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov's most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian's passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of Nabokov's infatuation with Irina Guadanini. In this book it is shown that the novel also conceals another, secluded, love affair Sebastian had with a man, which reflects the main episode in the life of Nabokov's brother Sergey. By pursuing many biographical and literary references and allusions, and by disregarding the deceptive guiding by the narrator (Sebastian's half-brother), this moving story about Sebastian's silent love becomes brightly visible.

Russian literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Real life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich). --- Russian literature. --- Real life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich)