Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Name: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight blends fantasy and realism to explore court life while satirising the waning chivalric ideal. This edition features the original Middle English text alongside a Modern English verse translation, enriched with detailed explanatory notes. It delves into the poem's manuscript, its anonymous author and other works, plus its structure, themes, characters and intended audience.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for readers interested in medieval literature, poetry enthusiasts, students of Middle English, and those fascinated by medieval culture and chivalry.

This edition of sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the fruit of William Vatunono's research on the fourteenth-century romance. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight praises court life with an undercurrent of satire against a declining chivalric ideal. The poem calls up from the mythic past the shadows of archetypal figures.

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By combining fantasy and realism, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight praises court life with an undercurrent of satire against a declining chivalric ideal. This edition focuses on the Middle English text, with a Modern English Verse translation on facing pages and extensive notes at the bottom of the pages.

It discusses the manuscript, the anonymous poet and his other poems, and the structure of the poem and its audience, themes, and characterisation. With this translation, Vantuono aims to adhere as closely as possible to the original without sacrificing the poem's essential meaning and mood.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780268017675

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 July 1999

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press

Contributors:

Translated by William Vantuono

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 489g

Pages: 364

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

William Vantuono is an independent scholar who has retired from teaching. He is the author of The Pearl Poems: An Omnibus Edition, The Pearl Poem in Middle and Modern English, and Old and Middle English Texts with Accompanying Textual and Linguistic Apparatus.