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Anglo-Saxon attitudes
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Kenneth Fowler THE LAST ENGLISH KING by Julian Rathbone
Little, Brown, 16.99, pp. 381
Few events in English history have impressed themselves upon the national consciousness more than 1066 `and all that'. William of Normandy's victory at Hastings, as things turned out, was one of the battles which at rare intervals have decided the fate of nations; but in The Last English King the story of the events which led up to the death of Harold Godwinson is retold in an account which i...
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Nelson Estupinan Bass and the historico-political novel: From theory to praxis
Afro - Hispanic Review
; In his first novel, Cuando los guayacanes florecian (1954),1 Nelson Estupinan Bass uses a prologue and an epigraph as potent rhetorical devices. The former issued under the heading "Aclaracion necesaria," highlights the salient compositional features of the work, attributes which underscore its
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Book reviews: Tapestry of tales
The Scotsman
; ABOVE: Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII with Cardinals by Sir John Gilbert. Picture: Bridgeman Art Library IT IS A TRUTH PARTIALLY ACKNOWLedged that a woman in search of a good read will pick up a historical novel - and a historical novel written by a woman, too. "Partially" acknowledged, because
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Studies in the Novel
; MENTON, SEYMOUR. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993). 240 pp. $30.00. Seymour Menton's most recent book, Latin America's New Historical Novel, sets out to delineate and explore the territory occupied by the latest avatar of Latin American fiction: the historical novel. In this wide-ranging
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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BOOKS: A top notch soap opera in the court of Henry VIII.(Features)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory. Published by HarperCollins. pounds 17.99. I KNEW very little about Henry VIII's wife, Katherine of Aragon, apart from the fact that she came first in the divorced/beheaded/died/divorced/beheaded/survived sequence. Thanks to Philippa Gregory's latest
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William T. Vollmann's 'The Ice-Shirt': updating Icelandic traditions.
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
; ... truth the novel is after. According to Vollmann, The Ice-Shirt is not historically accurate: Readers are warned that the sketch-maps and boundaries here are provisional. approximate, unreliable. and wrong. Nonetheless, I have furnished them. for as my text is ...
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