| Sir Gawain and the Knight of the Green Chapel Contributor(s): Simms, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761821511 ISBN-13: 9780761821519 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $94.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 821.1 |
| LCCN: 2001054036 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.20 lbs) 428 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although the Middle English poem known as 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is assumed to be a kind of comic or satirical romance deriving from the Christian courts of England in the fourteenth century, several strange features suggest a different origin and generic categorization. Renaming it Sir Gawain and the Knight of the Green Chapel initiates the defamiliarization process. This book argues that the poet and his or her milieu belong to the small and confused converso community left behind after the Jewish expulsions at the end of the thirteenth century and still wondering who they were and what their place in society might be. Such a perspective may help explain why the goal of the young Sir Gawain is not only not green or even a chapel, but also why he arrives in the Castle of Hautdesert and undergoes a totally unexpected series of ordeals and tests. |