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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : 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?).
Author : R. A. Waldron
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780810103283
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763676977
“Morpurgo's dramatic telling captures the vitality of the tale as well as its beauty and mystery.” — Booklist (starred review) Welcome to a medieval world full of sword fights and shape-shifting, monsters and magic, and timeless characters both gallant and wonderfully human. Written anonymously in the fourteenth century, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is retold in its entirety by Michael Morpurgo in a lively and accessible narration that captures all the tale’s drama and humor. Vivid illustrations by the celebrated Michael Foreman infuse this classic tale with dragons, swords, and medieval pageantry.
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1900
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008393625
Contains stories from the age of chivalry, knights and holy quests.
Author : James Winny
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Poetry
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This new edition of the poem offers the original text together with a facing-page translation. With the alliterative Middle English before the reader, James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal rendering in modern English. This edition also provides an introduction, explanatory and textual notes, a further note on some words that present particular difficulties, and, in the appendices, two contemporary stories, The Feast of Bricriu and The Knight of the Sword which provide insight on the poem. --
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Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0593511212
The inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel, an early English poem of magic, chivalry and seduction. 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 : J A Burrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429594100
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 : Emily Cheeseman
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2017-05
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ISBN : 9781532342592
Author : Laura L. Howes
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2020-11
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9780393532463
"This Norton Critical Edition of the anonymously written fourteenth-century Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is derived from a verse translation by Marie Borroff, first translated in 1967. The poem follows Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's court, as his honor is tested by the Green Knight. After succeeding in beheading the Green Knight, who survives the ordeal, Gawain must uphold his end of the bargain and, after a year's time, meet with the Green Knight again so that the knight may return the grim favor and behead Gawain. The "Contexts" in this Critical Edition provide readers with selections of the poem in its original Middle English, as well as other Arthurian stories that may have influenced the anonymous Gawain-poet. "Criticism" includes a selection of essays on themes ranging from the poem's descriptive techniques, to its use of time and gender. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included"--
