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This literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, "Pearl, Cleanness, Patience," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its center, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. Despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.
Poésie anglaise --- Chevaliers --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Dans la littérature --- Roman courtois --- Poésie anglaise --- Chevaliers --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Roman courtois --- Histoire et critique
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This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes Marie Borroff’s celebrated, newly revised verse translation with supporting materials not to be found in any other single volume. The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, an essay on the metrical form, the translator’s note, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations to assist readers in the study of this canonical Arthurian romance. “Contexts” presents two French tales of Sir Gawain and a passage from the Alliterative Morte Arthure, also translated by Marie Borroff, as well as three selections from the original Middle English poem. “Criticism” collects ten interpretive essays on the poem’s central themes. Contributors include Alain Renoir, Marie Borroff, J. A. Burrow, A. Kent Hieatt, W. A. Davenport, Ralph Hanna III, Lynn Staley Johnson, Jonathan Nicholls, Geraldine Heng, and Leo Carruthers. A Chronology of important historical and literary dates and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --- Roman courtois anglais --- Histoire et critique --- Gauvain, personnage fictif --- Gawain Poet --- Chevaliers --- Poésie --- Roman courtois
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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 ad motifs, their ethical orientation and the social context in which they were produced. It presents a wealth of new sources and analogues, which provide illuminating points of comparison for analysis of the self-consciousness with which the Gawain -poet handled the staple ingredients of Arthurian romance. Throughout, Ad Putter plays close attention to the ways in which the modes of representation of Arthurian romance are related to social and historical context. By revealing in the course of their romances the importance of conscience, courtliness, and self-restraint, literati such as the Gawain -poet and Chretien de Troyes helped a feudal society with an obsolete chivalric ideology adapt to the changing times.
Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --- Romans de la Table ronde --- Chevaliers et chevalerie --- Littérature comparée --- Littérature comparée --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Française et anglaise --- Anglaise et française --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --- Romans de la Table ronde --- Chevaliers et chevalerie --- Littérature comparée --- Littérature comparée --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Française et anglaise --- Anglaise et française
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English poetry --- Arthurian romances. --- Romances, English. --- Perceval (personnage légendaire) --- Poésie anglaise --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- Yvain (personnage fictif) --- Romans de la Table ronde --- Roman courtois anglais --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Perceval --- Gawain --- Yvain --- Romances. --- Histoire et critique --- Perceval (personnage légendaire) --- Poésie anglaise
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“In the earliest versions [of the Loathly Lady tales], the Irish sovereignty hag tales, her excessive body allegorizes the nature of sovereignty; the Loathly Lady is the shape of success in power contestation. Because the vehicle of the allegory is gendered, however, and because the motif’s fictional flesh is sexually active, these ideas about control are entangled with personal power politics. These factors make the motif curiously promiscuous, an intersection of ideas that generates other ideas, sometimes unexpectedly, always provocatively. . . . “ This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and John Gower’s “Tale of Florent” are the better known of the English Loathly Lady tales, but “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,” the balladic versions—the “Marriage of Sir Gawain” and “King Henry” (and even “Thomas of Erceldoune”)—all use shape-shifting female flesh to convey ideas about the nature of women, about heretosexual relations, and about national identity.”—from the Introduction
820 "04/14" --- Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- 820 "04/14" Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- English poetry --- Women in literature. --- Metamorphosis in literature. --- Counseling in literature. --- Sovereignty in literature. --- Romances, English --- Ballads, English --- Ballads, English. --- Romances, English. --- Frau --- Mittelenglische Literatur --- Mittelenglisch. --- Motiv (Literatur). --- Frau. --- Metamorphose (Mythologie). --- Lyrik. --- Versdichtung. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Middle English. --- Motiv --- Mittelenglische Literatur. --- Gower, John, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Gawain, --- Gawain. --- Gower, John; Confessio amantis. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey; The Canterbury tales. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Romances --- Studies. --- Confessio amantis (Gower, John). --- Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey). --- 1100 - 1500. --- England. --- Gauvain (personnage fictif) --- Gower, John (1325?-1408). Confessio amantis --- Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). The wife of bath's tale --- Poésie anglaise --- Femmes --- Métamorphose (littérature) --- Souveraineté --- Roman courtois anglais --- Ballades anglaises --- Histoire et critique --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Dans la littérature --- Angleterre (GB)
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