Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the French Arthurian Romance
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 13 April 1995
- ISBN 9780198182535
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 224x144x21 mm
- Weight 456 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is an innovative 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 Arthurian romance two centuries earlier. Ad Putter reveals the similarities in their literary technique, in their ethical positions, and sets his discussion firmly in the context of......[copy incomplete]
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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.
Putter is excellent in giving substance to the general belief that the Gawain poet was deeply familiar with the French Arthurian romances ... he ranges far more widely, and with much greater persuasiveness, than the customary citations of examples of beheading games and amorous ladies have allowed.
