SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHTJ. A. BURROWEssays in Criticism
Before there was Game of Thrones there was a sophisticated Arthurian romance replete with brave knights, noble ladies, temptation, seduction, blame, shame, and a memorable beheading game in an obscure Middle English dialect. This new edition is closely translated from the original, presenting the d...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: html_title Courtly Aesthetics and Courtly Ethics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight /html_title Jill Mann Late medieval chivalric and courtly culture was characterized by display—or, to use Thorstein Veblen's term, "conspicuous...
In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, after Gawain ventures “into a forest fastness, fearsome and wild” (Norton, 311), he prays that he will be able to find “harborage” on Christmas Eve (Norton, 312). It is the middle of winter, and Gawain has been traveling in search of the Gre...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Read the full-text online edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1967). JRR Tolkien - 《Speculum》 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 Politics of place: political representation and the culture of electioneering in the Netherlands, c. 1848–1980s In a work filled...
Savage also notes, in The "Gawain" Poet: Studies in His Personality and Background(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956), p. 27, that Gawain receives the nick on the neck from the Green Knight on rhe Feast of... FB Jonassen - 《Studies in the Age of Chaucer》 被引...
It is this last text that will be of greatest interest to most readers of this book. Anderson here, as throughout, provides useful subsections treating matters of key interest: 'The Green Knight', 'The Pentangle', 'Nature and Time', 'The Girdle', and, less obviously, 'The Catastrophe'...
/Read the full-text online edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Notes: With Notes on Pearl and Brief Commentary on Purity and Patience (1967).John Gardner
This article proposes that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight presents emotionally focused content that actively invites readerly empathy with its flawed hero. This poem recruits the potential of the literary text both to represent human emotion, and also to arouse emotional responses in the reader (...
Magic, Women, and Incest: The Real Challenges in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightIt is in the significant silences of a text, in its gaps and absences that the presence of ideology can be most positively felt.–Terry Eagletondoi:10.1179/exm.1989.1.2.313Kamps...