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My Beloved Athena
Trust doesn't come easily to Tony Davenport. Shy, quiet, and deeply ashamed of a past without a family, he seeks refuge and anonymity in the United States Air Force. Assigned to Alaska, he is on top of the world, professionally and personally. But a silent killer, a brain tumor named Damocles, is about to strike and when it does, he loses everything he loves, his ability to do his job. Then, one fateful afternoon, he is transferred to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. No one at Tinker knows about him and he vows to keep it that way until the tumor takes his life. Everything goes according to plan until he meets Athena Hunter. A beautiful young NCO, she rekindles the desire to live in him. Through an exc...
The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance
Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity.
A Companion to Medieval Poetry
MEDIEVAL POETRY In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance, narrative, and alliterative poetry of the 15th century. Beginning in the Anglo-Saxon period, the volume explores the Old English language and its alliterative tradition, before moving on to examine the genres of heroic, devotional, wisdom and epic poetry, culminating in a discussion of arguably the founding text of the English literary canon, the great epic Beowulf. In part two, the Companion moves on to discuss the linguistic and social changes brought about as a result of the Norman Conquest, exploring...
Becoming the Pearl-poet
"From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and St Erkenwald, exploring key ideas that will inform a deeper understanding and appreciation of this medieval English writer's work"--
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WEALTH OF DECEPTION
From the tiny island nation of Aruba, millions of dollars are wired to accounts belonging to prominent American families. In New York, the stock market is manipulated at will. In the world of high finance and politics, it's well known that big rewards are achieved only by taking big risks. Mike Brennan thought he understood these risks but he has no way of knowing that he's being offered up as the perfect pawn when the authorities get too close to uncovering a shadowy organization that has been in operation for nearly three quarters of a century. Unfortunately for them, there's something about him they don't know. He's not willing to take the fall for them. After being set up as a murderer and an embezzler, Brennan is hunted by the FBI as he races up and down the East Coast against an unknown enemy. Before his struggle is over, there will be many lives lost, many saved, and the face of the country will be changed forever.
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A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.
Medieval Insular Romance
Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods. These studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and unfamiliar texts and topics. The disguised prince is a theme linking several articles, from early Anglo-Norman romances through later English ones, like King Edward and the Shepherd, to a late 16th-century recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration of Gloriana. 'Translation' in its widest sense, the way romance can reinvent stories for different tastes and periods, is anotherrunning theme; the opening introductory article considers the topic of translation theoretically, concerned to stimulate...
