Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian Romance
Title | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Ad Putter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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This is an innovative and original exploration of the connections between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the most well-known works of medieval English literature, and the tradition of French Arthurian romance, best-known through the works of Chretien de Troyes two centuries earlier. The book compares Gawain with a wide range of French Arthurian romances, exploring their recurrent structural patterns and motifs, their ethical orientation and the social context in which they were produced. It presents a wealth of new sources and analogues, which reveal and illuminate the Gawain-poet's sophisticated literary and moral understanding of the conventions of Arthurian romance. Throughout, Ad Putter pays close attention to the ways in which the modes of representation in romance are related to social and historical contexts. Focusing on the importance of conscience, courtliness, and self-restraint in Arthurian romance, this book explores the ways in which literati such as Chretien de Troyes and the Gawain-poet adapted chivalric ideals to the changing times.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Title | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight PDF eBook |
Author | Jessie Laidlay Weston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1898 |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Title | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight PDF eBook |
Author | Anonymous |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2012-10-19 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1554810191 |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a masterpiece of medieval English literature and one of the finest Arthurian tales in any language. Though its ingenious plotting and verbal artistry continue to dazzle readers, it is written in a challenging regional dialect and uses many words that were already archaic when the poem was written in the late fourteenth century. This edition is designed to make the poem, in its original Middle English, accessible to students and general readers. Following standards adopted for editing other Middle English poets, the edition lightly normalizes spellings to make words more recognizable for a modern audience. Extensive marginal glossing of difficult words, thorough on-page explanatory notes, and a comprehensive glossary offer further support for readers. The historical appendices include other examples of medieval romance from France and Britain.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
Title | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2008-11-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393334155 |
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Title | Sir Gawain & the Green Knight PDF eBook |
Author | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Arthurian romances |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Title | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 96 |
Release | 1900 |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Title | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight PDF eBook |
Author | Pearl Poet |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2021-04-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
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"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by Pearl Poet (translated by William Allan Neilson). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.