King Arthur - Literature. John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a traditional take in modern language. T.H. White's The Once and Future King cycle Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur is a work based on Thomas Malory's, written in such a way to appeal to the boys of the 19th century. Marion Zimmer Brad ...

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King Arthur - Literature. John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a traditional take in modern language. T.H. White's The Once and Future King cycle Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur is a work based on Thomas Malory's, written in such a way to appeal to the boys of the 19th century. Marion Zimmer Brad ...

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King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of legends known as the Matter of Britain. There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed. In the earliest mentions and in Welsh texts, he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as a dux bellorum ("war leader"), and High Medieval Welsh texts often call him an ameraudur ("emperor"; the ...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain, first published in 1889. It is worth noting that this work may be the first example of time travel in literature. The novel tells the tale of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself mysteriously transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528. Hank uses his advanced technological knowledge and Yankee ingenuity to ad ...

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In an Arthurian legend, the Lady of the Lake is the name of several related characters who play integral parts in the stories. These characters' roles include giving King Arthur his sword Excalibur, taking the king to Avalon after the Battle of Camlann, enchanting Merlin and raising Lancelot after the death of his father. Different writers and copyists give her name(s) variously as Nimue, Viviane, Niniane, Nyneve, and other variations. Lady of the Lake - Origins. The Lady of the Lake's origins are probably ...

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Kay is ubiquitous in Arthurian literature but he rarely serves as anything but a foil for other characters. Though he manipulates the king to get his way, his loyalty to Arthur is usually unquestioned. In the Vulgate Cycle, the Post-Vulgate and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Kay's father Ector adopts the infant Arthur after Merlin takes him away from his birth parents, Uther and Igraine. Ector raises him and Kay as brothers, but Arthur's parentage is revealed when he draws the Sword in the Stone at a tournament in London. Arthur, serving ...

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One of the main problems of the Nibelungenlied lies in its transmission of a Germanic subject matter. It has been handed down over a long time in a certain poetic language aiming at an audience that already knew the epics of King Arthur's court by Hartmann von Aue – a completely different kind of literature emphasizing detailed Christian chivalrous ethics. Accordingly, the Nibelungenlied has been inopportune from the beginning. Furthermore, with its long Germanic lines it differs formally from contemporary courtly literature, such as Hartmann von Aue, Got ...

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Twain's greatest contribution to American literature is generally considered to be the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. As Ernest Hemingway himself said: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ...all American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Also popular are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and the ...

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Mark Twain, Mark Twain - Early life, Mark Twain - Roughing it Out West, Mark Twain - First book, Mark Twain - Career overview, Mark Twain - Later life and friendship with Henry H. Rogers, Mark Twain - Museums and attractions, Mark Twain - Quotes, Mark Twain - Mark Twain as a character, Mark Twain - Bibliography

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Twain's greatest contribution to American literature is generally considered to be the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. As Ernest Hemingway himself said: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ...all American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Also popular are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and the ...

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Mark Twain, Mark Twain - Early life, Mark Twain - Roughing it Out West, Mark Twain - First book, Mark Twain - Career overview, Mark Twain - Later life and friendship with Henry H. Rogers, Mark Twain - Museums and attractions, Mark Twain - Mark Twain as a character, Mark Twain - Bibliography

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See The Bible and history for a more complete description of the general issues surrounding the Bible as a historical source. Biblical minimalists hold that David and his united kingdom never existed, and that the stories told about his life were made up much later by Jewish nationalists. Others feel that he was a historical figure and that the Biblical account on his person is generally accurate. An intermediate position, taken by a large proportion of scholars, consider him a real historical figure but, as with King Arthur, consider most of the traditions rel ...

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David, David - David's life, David - David's early life, David - Reign as King of Judah, David - David's reign over the United Monarchy, David - David's family, David - David's father, David - David's wives, David - Bathsheba, David - David's sons, David - David as a religious figure, David - David in Judaism, David - David in Christianity, David - David Dawud in Islam, David - Historicity of David, David - Representation in art and literature, David - Art, David - Literature, David - Film

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Main article: Cinema of Canada. See also Cinema of Quebec. The Canadian film market was dominated by the American film industry for decades. In the 1960s Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault, Gilles Groulx, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, Arthur Lamothe and other filmmakers from Québec began to challenge Hollywood by making innovative and politically relevant documentary and feature films. Among the important English-speaking filmmakers from this period are Allan King, Norman Jewison and Robin Spry. Michael Snow continues to be one of the most respected experimental film makers in the world. Norman Jewison recent ...

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The term 'Romanticism' derives ultimately from the fictional romances written during the Middle Ages ("romance" being the medieval term for works in the vernacular Romance languages rather than in Latin). These each involved the episodic adventures of a single individual, though long digressive inner narratives might follow a secondary figure for a time, and they revolved around some central figure: Charlemagne, Alexander the Great and King Arthur were each central figures in such "cycles" of romances, which were notable for their use ...

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Romanticism, Romanticism - Characteristics, Romanticism - Origins and precursors, Romanticism - Music, Romanticism - Romanticism and Music, Romanticism - Music After the Romantic Hey-Day, Romanticism - Art and literature, Romanticism - Nationalism, Romanticism - Terms sometimes taken as related, Romanticism - Terms sometimes taken as opposed

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The noble savage as protaganist or, more often, as companion to the protaganist has long been a popular type of literary character. Perhaps the most notable early example is the character Friday from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Other examples inclide Dirk Peters from Edgar Allen Poe's A Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Chingachgook from James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Queequeg from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and Umslpoagaas from H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. Tonto from the Lone Ranger radio and television programs is one of the ...

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Noble savage, Noble savage - Modern denial, Noble savage - Origins, Noble savage - Literature

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The noble savage as protagonist or, more often, as companion to the protagonist has long been a popular type of literary character. Perhaps the most notable early example is the character Friday from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Other examples inclide Dirk Peters from Edgar Allen Poe's A Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Chingachgook from James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Queequeg from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and Umslpoagaas from H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. Tonto from the Lone Ranger radio and television programs is one of the ...

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Noble savage, Noble savage - Modern denial, Noble savage - Origins, Noble savage - Literature

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Michael Morpurgo - Shortlisted. 1991 Carnegie Medal Waiting for Anya 1995 Carnegie Medal Arthur, High King of Britain 1996 Carnegie Medal The Wreck of the Zanzibar 2002 WHSmith Award for Children's Literature Out of the Ashes 2003 Blue Peter Book Award: The Book I Couldn't Put Down Cool! 2003 Carnegie Medal Private Peaceful 2004 Whi ...

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List of asteroids named after people - Characters in classic fiction. 92 Undina (Undine, heroine of the novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué) 264 Libussa (Libuše, mythical Bohemian prophetess) 2041 Lancelot (Arthurian knight) 2082 Galahad (Arthurian knight) 2483 Guinevere (Guinevere, King Arthur's queen) 2597 Arthur (King Arthur, legendary king of England) 2598 Merlin (Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur) 3102 Krok (Krok, my ...

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Twain's greatest contribution to American literature is generally considered to be the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. As Ernest Hemingway himself said: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ...all American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Also popular are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and the ...

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Mark Twain, Mark Twain - Early life, Mark Twain - Roughing it Out West, Mark Twain - First book, Mark Twain - Pen names: Mark Twain Sieur Louis de Conte, Mark Twain - Career overview, Mark Twain - Later life and friendship with Henry H. Rogers, Mark Twain - Museums and attractions, Mark Twain - Mark Twain as a character, Mark Twain - Bibliography

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Matter of Britain - Legendary history of Britain. The legendary history of Britain was created in part to create a body of patriotic myth for the island. Several agendas appear in this body of literature. The Historia Britonum, earliest known source of the story of Brutus of Britain, seems to have been devised to create a distinguished genealogy for a number of Welsh princes in the ninth century. Attributed to Gildas or Nennius, its actual compiler is unknown; it exists in several recensions. This t ...

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Matter of Britain, Matter of Britain - Themes and subjects, Matter of Britain - Legendary history of Britain, Matter of Britain - The Arthurian cycle, Matter of Britain - Characters and subjects, Matter of Britain - Legendary kings and founders, Matter of Britain - Arthur and his entourage, Matter of Britain - Knights of the Round Table, Matter of Britain - Other important figures, Matter of Britain - Noteworthy authors, Matter of Britain - Medieval, Matter of Britain - Modern, Matter of Britain - Anonymous, Matter of Britain - References and sources

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The Cornish flag,st. pirrans flag, a white cross on a black background is often seen in cornwall. The Duchy shield of gold bezants on a black field is also used. Because of these two symbols black,white and gold are considered colours symbolic of cornwall. The chough (in cornish palores) is also used as a symbol of Cornwall. In cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of cornwall. Also there is a cornish belief that king arthur lives in the form of a chough. "Chough" ...

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