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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Hardcover, Revised Edition)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Hardcover, Revised Edition)
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This comprehensive, critical edition of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight is the fruit of William Vantuono's research on the
fourteenth-century romance. In combining fantasy and realism, Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight praises court life with an undercurrent
of satire against a declining chivalric ideal. The poem calls up
from the mythic past the shadows of archetypal figures, yet
inspires modern psychoanalytic interpretations, and entertains
while teaching a moral-religious lesson. The heart of this edition
is the Middle English text, with a Modern English verse translation
on facing pages and extensive notes at the bottom of the pages. A
discussion of the manuscript, the anonymous poet and his other
poems, the structure of the poem and its audience, themes,
characterization, and purpose serves as a valuable introduction to
the classic. With this translation, Vantuono aims to follow the
original as closely as possible without sacrificing the poem's
essential meaning and mood. The notes reveal the literal sense of
the Middle English vocabulary where necessary changes were made for
poetic effect. The reader is therefore able to compare the Middle
English original, the translation, and the notes to learn about the
old language, the content of the poem, the poet's artistry, and the
process of translation.
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