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THE CYCLICAL WAY OF THE PRIESTESS: ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NARRATIVE STRUCTURES IN MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY'S THE MISTS OF AVALON1 The Arthurian legend has inspired a new vogue of late twentieth Century fiction, the general development of which (including the recent re-tellings on the populär market) has been analysed in numerous publications2. Little attention has been paid, however, to the Interpretation of individual modern versions. A particularly interesting example of this genre is M. Zimmer Bradley's The Mists ofAvalon; a book which was on the list of bestselling novels published by the Spiegel, the Welt am Sonntag and the Stern for almost two years from 1984-1985. The author has been accused of concocting the typical fantasy-sexcrime-feminism mixture which responds to current market trends. However, I believe that the answer to the success of this book is more complex. I want to show in the first part of this essay what the specific This essay was inspired by a seminar on the modern reception of the Arthurian legend which I taught at Freiburg University in the Winter Semester 1986/87 together with Prof. Walter Blank and Prof. Bernhard Greiner from the German Department and with Prof. Erzgräber from the English
Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie – de Gruyter
Published: Jan 1, 1990
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