Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by R. A. Waldron and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight A New Verse Translation written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?).
Download or read book An Analysis of the Characters of the Green Knight and Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by Harold Mark Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight written by George Lyman Kittredge and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by Boria Sax and published by Research & Education Assoc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REA's MAXnotes for The Gawain Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each section of the work is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Download or read book The Once and Future King written by T. H. White and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Inter relationship Between External Descriptions and the Internal Psychology of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by Bianca Stärk and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar K ln), course: Medieval English Literature, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: There have been many discussions, essays or psychological interpretations about the aristocratic romance of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", which was written at about 1400 by an unknown author. The romance embodies chivalric ideas of the English ruling class in the mid-fourteenth century. The central focus is set on Gawain, an honourable and courteous knight belonging to Arthur's Round Table. In this essay I will show that Sir Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a character with many virtues and that his outer appearance stands in close relationship to his internal psychology. Every character is characerized through what he or she thinks about him or herself, how others think and feel about the character and through the actions of the character as well. Gawain is characterized through his armour which directly leads to his internal psychology. His actions are very characteristic for him and it is also very important what others think about him and how that differs from his own view of himself.
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Download or read book A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by J A Burrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight vs Sword of the Valiant The representation of the Green Knight in comparison written by Nicole Piontek and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bonn (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie), course: English Medieval Studies, language: English, abstract: The Gawain-Poet introduces a mysterious and magical character in his poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”. The Green Knight is a dangerous and powerful character in the beginning of the plot. He sets the happenings in motion and is the reason for Gawain’s journey. However, the Green Knight is uncovered to not be the main villain of the story. Therefore, there must be hints at his weakness and vulnerability throughout the plot, just as the depiction of magical elements. The same applies to the movie adaptation Sword of the Valiant directed by Stephen Weeks. Although Weeks’ adaptation shows clear alterations to the poem, the beginning and the ending of the plots can still be compared. As for the beginning, in both versions the Green Knight enters the Arthurian court and explains his errand. Towards the end, both versions of Gawain find themselves in the Green Chapel. Thus, these two scenes are comparable. This paper aims at answering the question whether the representation of the Green Knight in the original poem corresponds to the movie Sword of the Valiant. Moreover, this paper is going to focus on the aspect of vulnerability and magical elements. Thus, the following questions will be answered: How is vulnerability portrayed in contrast to each other, and in how far is magic emphasized through the depiction of the Green Knight?
Download or read book The Knight on His Quest written by Piotr Sadowski and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the major thematic aspects of the English fourteenth-century romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The chief aim of author Piotr Sadowski is to look at the contents of the narrative in their entirety and to take full advantage of the poem's exceptional and widely praised harmony of structure and design. Within that design, Sadowski focuses on the poem's presentation of the main protagonist and his adventures, seen first of all as a generalized metaphor of the human life understood as a spiritual quest, and, in a more historical sense, as an expression and critique of certain ideals, values, and anxieties that characterized the late medieval institutions of the court, chivalry, and the Church. Sadowski built the interpretive framework of Sir Gawain from an eclectic theoretical base that he believes is most valuable and useful in approaching medieval literature. The main focus of the study remains the literary text itself, created by an author who communicates his view of the world through the poem.
Download or read book Sir Gawain written by John Matthews and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restores Gawain to his true role as the honorable representative and servant of the Goddess.
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Rethinking Romance written by Markus Widmer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (A), University of Zurich (English Seminar), course: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses how the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight uses, explores and sometimes undermines the conventions of the Arthurian romance genre. As a basis for this investigation, a definition of the genre is sketched, using a structuralist model along with a set of typical motifs found in many romances. Having established the essential genre elements the papier then examines the way the Gawain-poet makes use of these in his text. After identifying the fundamentally generic structure of the poem the author concentrates on incidents where the poet plays ironically with the reader's genre expectations.
Download or read book Study Guide to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Other Works written by Intelligent Education and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Study of Sir Gawain as a Serious ironic Hero in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by Margaret Anne Luyat and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study attempts to demonstrate that a new image of the knightly hero emerges in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by virtue of the author's simultaneous presentation of the chivalric perfections of the knight along with the human imperfections of the man. The author's paradoxical view of Gawain permeates the entire narrative and is worked out in minute detail. That is why, in dealing with the hero, it is necessary to analyze closely those symbols and characters with which the author surrounds him. The author's view of life, as he expresses it in the poem, in one based on his appreciation of the complexity of life. For him, no event is an unmixed blessing. Both suffering and good, for example, come out of the visit of the Green Knight to Arthur's court. For this reason, it must be said that the author is not attracted to the standard image of the hero found in most romances, that of the irreproachable knight who will never taste the bitterness of making difficult, borderline decisions, that of the man who is never forced to struggle. It will be seen that in the typical chivalric literature of the Middle Ages, knighthood takes on the character of a mask, which disguises the personality of the hero as effectively as the armor he wears hides his physical appearance. Those romances which drop the mask to reveal the man frequently under-mine the character of the knight by placing him in highly questionable situations. Without debasing Gawain*s character in any way, the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight manages to preserve the knightly mask and at the same time to permit a glimpse behind it. As the title of this discussion suggests, he uses the technique of irony to illustrate the hero's unique, human character. Although the presence of irony in the story indicates criticism of the hero on the part of the author, it is definitely not of a destructive nature; on the contrary, it is of an amiable, sympathetic, and constructive kind. And it works like sudden, unexpected flashes of light which emphasize, not for the first time, but in a new way, the human qualities of the hero and his quest. This study will consider the possibility that the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight uses the romance conventions to create his own concept of a romance hero, and that he chooses to unite the serious and ironic elements of his narrative in the person of the hero. Sir Gawain.
Download or read book The Squire His Knight and His Lady written by Gerald Morris and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After several years at King Arthur's court, Terence, as Sir Gawain's squire and friend, accompanies him on a perilous quest that tests all their skills and whose successful completion could mean certain death for Gawain.
Download or read book The Adventures of Sir Gawain the True written by Gerald Morris and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An ingeniously integrated retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight . . . Worthy reading for all budding squires and damsels.” —Kirkus Reviews(starred review) In the third installment in the Knights’ Tales series, Gerald Morris tells the laugh-out-loud tale of King Arthur’s most celebrated knight and nephew, Sir Gawain, and the Green Knight. With lively illustrations by Aaron Renier, Morris creates a captivating and comical medieval world that teems with humor and wonder. This chapter book is sure to set young readers on another rollicking and hilarious Arthurian adventure! “Broad humor, graced with lively language will have readers laughing along with this boisterous Arthurian adventure.” —Yellow Brick Road Praise for The Knights’ Tales series “With his quirky sense of myth and legend and tongue-in-cheek humor, [Morris] brings to life the court of King Arthur and his knights.” —Curled Up with a Good Kid’s Book “The book’s brevity and humor make it accessible to reluctant readers, and it is a fantastic read-aloud.” —School Library Journal “This trim novel, with simple vocabulary and brief, witty chapters, is an ideal fit for early readers . . . but fans of the legendary characters may find particular delight in this irreverent and unabashedly silly exploration of Arthur’s court and his most influential knight.” —The Bulletin “This is often quite funny, and just exciting enough to capture the attention of budding young Arthur-philes.” —Booklist
