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Ein mitreißender Liebesroman vor der wildromantischen Kulisse der schottischen Highlands. Schottland 1685: Als durch den Rauch und die Flammen des brennenden Klosters ein berittener Krieger auf sie zuprescht, ist Lady Davina Montgomery sicher, dass dies ihr letzter Augenblick auf Erden ist. Doch statt eines englischen Angreifers taucht der Highlander Robert MacGregor vor ihr auf und trägt sie auf seinen starken Armen in Sicherheit. Mit dem Kloster auch ihrer Zuflucht beraubt, ist Robert plötzlich ihr einziger Verbündeter. Nur lassen seine verführerischen Blicke sie beinahe vergessen, dass i

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Up to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were held to convey the truth. The second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre, the romance, which was consciously conceived as fictional and therefore allowed largely to break free from traditional presuppositions. Dennis Green explores how and why this happened, and examines this period of crucial importance for the birth of the romance and the genesis of medieval fiction in the vernacular. Although the crucial innovative role of writers in Germany is Green's main concern, he also takes literature in Latin, French and Anglo-Norman into account. This study offers a definition of medieval fictionality in its first formative period in the twelfth century, and underlines the difficulties encountered in finding a place for the fictional romance within earlier literary traditions.

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Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks. Catherine Léglu explores the narrative’s translation into French in medieval England, examining the multiple versions of the Samson narrative via its many adaptations into verse, prose, visual art and musical. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, this text draws together examples from several genres and media, focusing on the importance of book learning to secular works. In analysing this Biblical narrative, Léglu reveals the importance of the Samson and Delilah story as a point of entry into a fuller understanding of medieval translations and adaptations of the Bible.

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If Shakespeare's last plays-Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and Henry VIII-are to be neither debunked nor idealized but taken seriously on their own terms, they must be examined within the traditions and conventions of romance. Howard Felperin defines this relatively neglected literary mode and locates these plays within it. But, as he shows, romance was not simply an established genre in which Shakespeare worked at both the beginning and end of his career but a mode of perceiving the world that pervades and shapes his entire work.The last plays are examined to answer such questions as: How does Shakespeare raise to a higher power the conventions of romance available to him, particularly those of the native medieval drama? How does he bring us to accept these elements of romance? Above all, how does romance, the mode in which the imagination enjoys its freest expression, become the vehicle, not of beautiful, escapist fantasy but of moral truth?Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Le dernier roman de Chrétien de Troyes, le Conte du Graal , laissé inachevé, s'ouvre depuis huit siècles à des interprétations multiples. Dans la présente étude l'accent est surtout mis sur la partie Perceval, sans pour autant négliger totalement la partie Gauvain. Sont passés en revue certains problèmes qui ont particulièrement intrigué la critique pendant les trois dernières décennies, et aussi certain façons de lire ce roman séminal qui selon l'auteur de cette monographie sont plus ou moins fructueuses. Le point de départ est la conviction qu'on serait bien avisé d'accepter l'invitation lancée par le poète dès le Prologue. Il importe de lire le récit suivant comme une mise en oeuvre du contraste entre la main destre et la main senestre, la droite et a gauche, en l'occurrence la charité et la vaine gloire. Dans la narration cette opposition se développe non pas de manière dogmatique mais avec toute la finesse, la subtilité, la pénétration psychologique dont Chrétien avait fait preuve dans ses autres romans, avec en plus un sérieux qu'on ne lui connaissait pas auparavant. En vieillissant, le romancier expérimenté se sera renouvelé, au plaisir et profits des amateurs de la fiction médiévale.

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