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Author : Robert Joyce Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021413856
Author : E.L. Risden
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476634326
The 14th century English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is admired for its morally complex plot and brilliant poetics. A chivalric romance placed in an Arthurian setting, it has since received acclaim for its commentary regarding important socio-political and religious concerns. The poem’s technical brilliance blends psychological depth and vivid language to produce an effect widely considered superior to any other work of the time. Although the poem is a combination of English alliterative meter, romanticism, and a wide-ranging knowledge of Celtic lore, continental materials and Latin classics, the extent to which Classical antecedents affected or directed the poem is a point of continued controversy among literary scholars. This collection of essays by scholars of diverse interests addresses this puzzling and fascinating question. The introduction provides an expansive background for the topic, and subsequent essays explore the extent to which classical Greek, Roman, Arabic, Christian and Celtic influences are revealed in the poem's opening and closing allusions, themes, and composition. Essays discuss the way in which the anonymous author of Sir Gawain employs figural echoes of classical materials, cultural memoirs of past British tradition, and romantic re-textualizations of Trojan and British literature. It is argued that Sir Gawain may be understood as an Aeneas, Achilles, or Odysseus figure, while the British situation in the 14th century may be understood as analogous to that of ancient Troy.
Author : J A Burrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429594106
Originally published in 1965, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can stand beside Chaucer. The book examines the poem’s conventions and purposes in a critical analysis and provides a useful and insightful introduction to ‘Sir Gawain’. It will be of interest to students and academics studying the poem of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Author : Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780140424829
Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year's Eve. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge, decapitating the stranger - only to see the Green Knight seize up his own severed head and ride away, leaving Gawain to seek him out and honour their pact. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, Gawain is among the greatest Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction.
Author : W. Bernard Lukenbill,Sharon Lee Stewart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : 0824084985
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Eaton
Author : Robert J. Blanch
Publisher : Whitston Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106006837758
This book is a selective and thorough survey of Gawain scholarship from 1824 through 1978.
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226283289
The classic tale of adventure, romance, and chivalry--now a major motion picture starring Dev Patel! The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet John Gardner has captured the humor, elegance, and richness of the original Middle English in flowing modern verse translations of this literary masterpiece. Besides the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, this edition includes two allegorical poems, “Purity” and “Patience”; the beautiful dream allegory “Pearl”; and the miracle story “Saint Erkenwald,” all attributed to the same anonymous poet, a contemporary of Chaucer and an artist of the first rank. “Mr. Gardner has translated into modern English and edited a text of these five poems that could hardly be improved. . . . The entire work is preceded by a very fine and complete general introduction and a critical commentary on each poem.”—Library Journal
Author : Victor Yelverton Haines
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : University Press of America
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003754590
Achieves a synthesis of two tendencies in Gawain criticism: the culpa school, which emphasizes Gawain's sin without being able to explain the final laughter at Camelot, and the felix school, which sees the comedy without being able to face the fact of Gawain's pernicious sin. Students of medieval literature, theologians interested in typology and the paradox of the felix culpa, and art historians interested in medieval iconography will all find much of value in this excellent study.
Author : Jessie L. Weston
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486849584
One of the best-known Arthurian stories—adapted many times into verse, prose, games, and even an upcoming film—this unabridged republication of the 1909 edition is beautifully bound and finished with a decorated hardcover.
Author : International Arthurian Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : UOM:39015053690510
Author : Nancy Conrad Martinez,Joseph G. R. Martinez
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015003016673
This guide to poems written during the Old English and Medieval periods covers criticism from 1925 to 1990. There are 4500 explication on Chaucer, Beowulf, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and many other works. Sources include books, journals, articles, anthologies and dissertations, and the bibiography reflects a variety of critical methods: new historical;Marxist; psychological; linguistic; stylistic; deconstructionist; and rhetorical. Poems are listed alphabetically by title, while the critical sources are listed under individual poems, and are arranged alphabetically by author.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486833262
In this classic example of the chivalric tradition, a stranger in green armor issues a challenge to the knights of the Round Table and Sir Gawain volunteers to do battle for his uncle, King Arthur. Includes the original poem and a prose translation.
Author : Gawain Poet
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528792660
Featuring both the original text and a modern, translated version, this fourteenth-century Arthurian poem tells the legendary tale of the mysterious Green Knight and Sir Gawain, a great knight of the Round Table. The knights of the Round Table are celebrating Yuletide when their festivities are interrupted by the mystifying Green Knight riding on his green horse. The Green Knight challenges King Arthur’s legendary men to a wager. He who takes a blow at the Green Knight must be prepared to accept a return attack one year and one day later. It is the gallant Sir Gawain who takes this challenge on. He raises his axe and strikes off the head of the Green Knight. Yet, the intruder is undefeated. Still alive, he picks up his head, and promises he will see Sir Gawain in a year and a day. In stanzas of alliterative verse ending in a rhyming bob and wheel, the poem chronicles Sir Gawain’s heroic quest. This high-quality edition features both William Allan Neilson’s 1917 translated text and the original version by the anonymous writer, known as the ‘Pearl Poet’ or the ‘Gawain Poet’. Ragged Hand has proudly republished this classic poem in a beautiful new edition, complete with an introduction by K. G. T. Webster. This volume is not to be missed by fans of the famous legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000048572415
Author : Lawrence Francis McNamee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UCSC:32106020262181