Download or read book Beheading game Jeux partis and the Play element in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by Marie-Thérèse Brouland and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beheading Game written by Barak A. Bassman and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Carados, a handsome and powerful young knight of King Arthur's court, has spent his life effortlessly progressing from triumph to triumph until the day he foolishly accepts a challenge from a mysterious giant who has barged into Camelot's Christmas celebration: to deliver an axe blow to the giant's head now and then meekly submit to the giant's return blow in exactly one year. But when Carados watches the decapitated giant stand back up after being struck with an axe and mount its severed head back on its body, he knows he is doomed to die in a year's time and must undergo a series of adventures to test whether he will have the strength and courage to keep his oath to submit to the reciprocal blow. But unlike Sir Gawain in the famous poem about his encounter with the Green Knight, it is far from clear that Carados will maintain his honor and resist the temptation to flee from his impending fate. As he struggles with the sudden futility of his soon to be cut short life, Carados slides into greater depths of violence and cruelty.
Download or read book The Beheading Game written by Brenda S. Webster and published by Wings Press (TX). This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flamboyant New York theatre director Ren is passionately in love with Jack, a younger man who is still under the thumb of his conservative CEO father, Malcolm. Jack's differences with his father range from the fact that Jack is still in the closet regarding his sexuality to having to endure his father's platitudes about self-improvement and his contempt for Ren. The fact that his father's oil company is dumping toxic waste into the Hudson River doesn't help since cleaning up the river is one of Jack's missions in life. Tensions mount when Jack becomes critically ill with lymphoma and has to undergo a bone marrow transplant which will either cure him or kill him. At the same time that Ren is tending to Jack in the hospital, he is busy staging his version of & quot;Gawain and the Green Knight. & quot; His struggles with Malcolm over Jack's love lead Ren to question the values of the medieval story especially the blind loyalty of the young vassal to his lord and he ends by inverting these feudal values in a wild cross-gendered sail against the currents of History. Behind this shift in dramaturgy is Ren's gradual realization that the battles that count for him as a modern (loving) man are fought by changing bedpans and bandages, not waving lances and swords. Life and theatre become intertwined as Ren increasingly lives his life as drama, enacting ever more baroque and occasionally risky fantasies of revenge and Love's riumph. Beyond the ambiguities of gender and sexual orientation, The Beheading Game finds that the issues of love and death, honesty and loyalty, are the same for all of us."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book The Beheading Game Its Sources and Transmissions written by CARLOS. CARNEIRO and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to The Gawain Poet written by Ad Putter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 14th century produced a crop of brilliant writers: Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Their achievement was rivalled only by a series of four works generally agreed to have been written by a single northern author, known as the Gawain-Poet. This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-poet's four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness. The four poems are made accessible to the student by setting them in their relevant historical and cultural context and by developing some lines of critical argument. All studies are based on the author's own research and translations.
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 The Works of the Gawain poet written by Charles Moorman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1976 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking Westward written by Ordelle G. Hill and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the perspective of the poetry, landscape, and politics of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Wales and the Welsh March.
Download or read book The Gawain poet written by John Anthony Burrow and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive account of what is known about the four poems commonly ascribed to the Gawain poet.
Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Download or read book Beyond the Beheading Game written by Maddison Binkley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideology established by Sir Gawain's literary past depicts the knight as the "unblemished paragon of chivalric virtue". This image bleeds into the first fitt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stealthily establishing the plot as Gawain's participation in the beheading game in order to meet his obligations to the Green Knight and King Arthur. However, I find that there are complexities to the storyline that reveal it as not being simply dictated by masculine identity and the homosocial, but by a fluid existence of all things masculine and feminine. I propose that this fluidity disrupts the superficial appearance that Gawain's trek to the Green Knight is merely a path to the completion of the beheading game, but instead creates a complicated journey that reveals the world of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight operating under the holistic blend of all gender roles. This proposed fluidity, in turn, questions the conventional binary gender system of the late Middle Ages and informs both the reader and Sir Gawain that the agendas of the masculine and feminine do not exist separately, but together. The existence of fluidity is revealed through analyses of Gawain's liminality, the functions of Hautdesert and Camelot, Gawain's interactions with Lord and Lady Bertilak, as well as his interactions with the pentangle and the green girdle. These analyses signify the shift in Gawain's chivalric values and propel the reader to see the influence of differing genders that exist in the poem. Arguing gender fluidity as the basis under which the world of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight functions results in an interpretation that enriches the current conversation surrounding gender ambiguity in medieval literature.
Download or read book Heads Will Roll written by Larissa Tracy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring "roles/rolls" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination.
Download or read book The Grail written by Dhira B. Mahoney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Quest for the Green Man written by John Matthews and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the theme of the Green Man in mythology, folklore, and literature throughout history, in such guises as Merlin, Robin Hood, Herne the Hunter, the Green Knight, Enkidu, and Cernunnos.
Download or read book Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape written by Isabel Sobral Campos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the legacies of colonialism and focuses on issues of environmental justice and indigenous issues as well as on the intersection of genocide studies and environmentalism. It also examines ecologically-informed modes of relating to the world. In particular, it engages with interactions between the human and nonhuman as well as mind and matter. Finally, it broadens the scope of place to include both the absent land of exiled peoples, and the urban, built environment.
Download or read book Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances and Lyric Poetry of Mediaeval France written by Kenneth Varty and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1987 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, a Festschrift for Professor Kenneth Varty, are centred on the relatively unexplored theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the medieval lyric. The Arthurian studies range over verse (Béroul, Chrétien, Jean Renart, the Roman de Silence) and prose (Robert de Boron, the Queste del Saint Graal, Perlesvaus, Lancelot and the Tristan), reflecting a variety of different approaches, from an examination of the legal background to the work of Béroul to an iconographical survey of hitherto undiscussed and unpublished Tristan illustrations to close textual analysis of an episode in Robert de Boron's Joseph and Merlin.
Download or read book The Arthurian Name Dictionary written by Christopher W. Bruce and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive encyclopedia of characters, places, objects, and themes found in the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table. Draws from all significant source between Gildas' De Excidio Britanniae written about 540 AD and Tennyson's 19th-century Idylls of the King, including versions from throughout Europe. The entries range from a short identifying sentence to nearly ten pages for the king himself. Each is referenced to a source, which are presented in a endtable showing author and tit date, form, and langua description; keywords from the entries; and recent editions, a vital bit of information such references usually neglect. The cross-referencing is fairly good, often done as a full entry identifying a name as a variant of another, so the lack of an index is not a problem. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
