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Books on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Text
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Norton Critical Editions)
by Marie Borroff
W. W. Norton & Co, 2009
The authoritative translation, by Marie Borroff of
Harvard University, newly revised and accompanied by
ancillary materials, including a detailed introduction,
an essay on the metrical form, marginal glosses and
annotations, as well as contextual texts, critical essays, etc.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translation
(Oxford World's Classics)
by Keith Harrison (Translator), Helen Cooper (Editor)
Oxford Univ Press, January 1999
"Acclaimed poet Keith Harrison's new translation uses a
modern alliterative pattern which subtly echoes the music of the
original at the same time it strives for fidelity. This is the most
generously annotated edition available, complete with a detailed
introduction which situates the work in the context of Arthurian
Romance and analyzes its poetics and narrative structure."
—The Publisher
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(York Medieval Texts)
by R.A. Waldron (Editor)
Northwestern Univ Press, May 1993
"[T]he present edition is designed to enable the modern
reader, and in particular the university student, to reach
a sensitive first-hand understanding of the text as the only
basis for valid literary judgement. The introduction deals
directly with the poems stylistic qualities and moral content.
In conjunction with the select bibliography it describes the
relevant Gawain-criticism of the past decade and advances
independent critical judgements." —The Publisher.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight :
Pearl, Cleanness, Patience
by A. C. Cawley, J. J. Anderson (Editor)
Everyman's Library; August 1996
"This edition is based on the former Everyman edition
of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness
and Patience' by the late A.C. Cawley and myself. With
the aim of helping readers coming to the poems for the
first time and perhaps not very familiar with Middle English
it offers the Middle English texts with some modernisation
of spelling and full on-the-page glossing of difficult words
and sentences, together with notes (in a separate section)
which explain allusions and discuss points of interest."
—J. J. Anderson
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Burton Raffel
Published by New American Library, Dec 1996
"Distinguished translator and poet Burton Raffel has rendered
this famous Arthurian verse romance into a brilliant, modern
work of verse that is always faithful to the original."
—The Publisher.
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Sources and Analogues
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and
French Arthurian Romance
by Ad Putter
Clarendon Press, April 1995
"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." (Card Catalog)
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Gawain: A Casebook
Raymond H. Thompson (Editor), Keith Busby (Editor)
Routledge, 2005
"[A] collection of nineteen classic and original essays
on the hero of Arthurian legend that investigates the
figure of Gawain as he appears in major medieval traditions,
and in modern literature and film.... [I]ncludes an extended
introduction examining the character's evolution from the
earliest tales to his most recent appearances in popular culture,
as well as an extensive annotated bibliography." —The Publisher.
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Bibliographical
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight :
An Annotated Bibliography, 1978-1989
(Garland Medieval
Bibliographies, Vol 13)
by Meg Stainsby
Garland Pub; May 1992
"A substantially annotated bibliography of the 30 or so
works a year published about the corpus of the Gawain-poet.
The 383 entries include editions, translations, essays,
monographs, performances, and a few reviews of books.
Does not include dissertations. Thoroughly cross-
referenced and indexed." —Book News, Inc.
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Other
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A Companion to the "Gawain"-Poet
by Derek Brewer (Editor), Jonathan Gibson (Editor)
Boydell & Brewer, April 1997
"Introductions to "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight",
"Pearl", "Cleanness" and "Patience", providing both
information and analysis. The topics include theories
of authorship, the historical and social background to
the poems (with individual sections on particularly
important features within them), gender roles in the
poems, the manuscript itself, the meter and vocabulary
and dialect of the poems, and their sources. A section
devoted to "Sir Gawain" investigates the ideas of
courtesy and chivalry found within it, and explores
some of its later adaptations."—Amazon.com
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An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet
(Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library Series)
by Dr. Ad Putter
Longman Pub Group, February 1997
"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."
—The Publisher
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Looking Westward: Poetry, Landscape, and Politics
in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Ordelle G. Hill
University of Delaware Press, 2009
"Though not discounting the extensive influence of
continental writers on this Arthurian romance, this
book argues that one should not ignore the western
influences at hand: the Welsh alliterative poets as
well as the prominent Welsh March aristocratic writer
Henry Grosmont, the western landscape specifically
identified on Gawain's journey, and the historical
personages whose presence was so great in Wales and
the March that they cannot be overlooked in the
Arthurian fiction of the time." —The Publisher
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From Pearl to Gawain : Forme to Fynisment
by Robert J. Blanch, Julian N. Wasserman
Univ Press of Florida, April 1995
The two authors maintain not only that the
four works attributed to the Pearl Poet share
the same author, but also that the poems are
connected and interrelated. Each entry
discusses all four works as a gloss unto
each other. -AJ
"Some of the material- in particular their
reading of the Green Knight's offer of weapons
to Arthur's court, and the thematic significance
of moral "handiwork" in the Gawain poems - not
only breaks new ground but challenges accepted
interpretations. "—(Card Catalog)
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