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Introduction 3

Alan Lupack

Lovespell and the Disinterpretation of a Legend 5

Norris J. Lacy

Fear of Flyting: The Absence of Internal Tension in Sword of the Valiant and First Knight 15

Robert J. Blanch and Julian N. Wasserman

Distancing Techniques in Chrétien de Troyes's Li Contes del Graal and Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois 33

Joan Tasker Grimbert

Re-Framing Perceval 45

Donald L. Hoffman

Looking for Arthur in All the Wrong Places: A Note on M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense 57

Kevin J. Harty

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REVIEWS

Rob Ballard, director, Arthur, A King by Anthony Peters 63

Kevin J. Harty

Stephanie L. Barczewski, Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood 65

Alan Lupack

Michelle P. Brown and Scott McKendrick, eds., Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters. Essays in Honour of Janet Blackhouse
Michael Camille, Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England 66

Richard H. Osberg

Michael Crichton, Timeline 69

Robert J. Blanch

Dyan Elliott, Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality & Demonology in the Middle Ages 71

Jacqueline De Weever

Jody Enders, The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence 72

Kathleen Ashley

John France, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades
Mark P. Donnelly and Daniel Diehl, Siege: Castles at War 75

Kelly DeVries

Eric John, Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England 77

Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe

Marianne E. Kalinke, ed., Norse Romances 78

Roberta Frank

Richard W. Kaeuper and Elspeth Kennedy, eds., The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny 80

Carol Chase

Ruth P. M. Lehmann, Blessed Bastard: A Novel of Sir Galahad 82

Alan Lupack

Alicia Snow, The Song of Guinevere: A Defense of Arthur¹s Wife in Verse 83

Muriel Whitaker

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BRIEF NOTICES

Neil Barron ed., Fantasy and Horror
Stephen Knight, ed., Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism
Lois Potter, ed., Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries 85

Kevin J. Harty