Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the French Arthurian Romance
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198182538 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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why so expensive? Read-too-much Why is this book so expensive? I really don't think that anyone will pay $100 for this book. If it was less (a lot less) I might buy it to use as a source for my English Litterature paper.
This is an innovative and original exploration of the connections between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the best-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. Putter compares Gawain with a wide range of French Arthurian romances, exploring their recurrent structural patterns and motifs, their ethical orientation, and the social context in which they were produced. He 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.
"Putter's bookreveals a professionally comprehensive command of romance tradition accompanied by perceptive reading of texts and levelheaded insights into medieval culture. This is a very good book, both in it promise for the future and in what it offers us now."--Speculum"a richly documented work, ambitious in its aims and admirable in its achievementan extraordinarily informative and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Sir Gawain that no serious student of medieval romance can afford to ignore."--Modern Philology
. Ad Putter is at University of Bristol