Author: Larry Dean BensonPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: Larry Dean BensonPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: William Raymond Johnston BarronPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719055171
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This edition of one of the classic Middle English romances gives the original text side by side with a sensitive modern translation.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140440928
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel. ‘Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain; Seek faithfully till you find me …’ A New Year’s feast at King Arthur’s court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur’s men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight – but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The following winter Gawain sets out to find the Knight in the wild Northern lands and to keep his side of the bargain. One of the great masterpieces of Middle English poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight magically combines elements of fairy tale and heroic sagas with the pageantry, chivalry and courtly love of medieval Romance. Brian Stone’s evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the Romance genre, and the poem’s epic and pagan sources. This edition also includes essays discussing the central characters and themes, theories about authorship and Arthurian legends, and suggestions for further reading and notes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
Author: Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
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 and the Green Knight
Author: J. R. R. TolkienPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191518190
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: R. A. WaldronPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810103283
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Study Guide to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Other Works
Author: Intelligent EducationPublisher: Influence Publishers
ISBN: 1645424014
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by an unknown poet, whose identity has been highly debated since the Middle Ages. Titles in this study guide include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Purity, Pearl, and Patience. As a collection of Medieval English literature, the alliterative poems each represented a high level of poetic achievement and are ranked alongside the works of Chaucer. Moreover, they contained many examples of symbolism and poetic technique and explored themes like the virtue of patience. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of the poet’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: J. A. BurrowPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140422955
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.
Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages
Author: Richard NewhauserPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000939790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Richard Newhauser examines here aspects of the moral tradition of medieval thought, specifically the construction of the seven deadly sins, their offspring, and related schematizations of immorality in the Latin West. The emphasis in these studies is on the malleability of moral categories, their relationship to changes in medieval culture, and the creativity and sensitivity of the thinkers who made use of the concepts of sinfulness in the Middle Ages. The first section examines the contexts in which the seven deadly sins (or nine accessory sins) are found in medieval Latin, English, and German texts, and in particular the genre of the treatise on vices and virtues as the major vehicle in which concepts of immorality were examined and presented to a variety of audiences for meditative or pastoral purposes. The second section deals with one of the more interesting of the seven deadly sins, avarice, in its penitential, literary, apocalyptic, and institutional contexts, as its definition changed slowly with developing commercial experiences in medieval Europe. In the last section the breadth of the concept of a sinful curiosity is examined, and its historical development is delineated in the thought of Augustine of Hippo and the early Cistercians.
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