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The Text
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : A Verse Translation
(Oxford World's Classics)
by Keith Harrison (Translator), Helen Cooper (Editor)
US $7.61
Paperback
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
Table of Contents
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(York Medieval Texts)
by R.A. Waldron (Editor)
US $15.95
Paperback Reprint edition
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
(Everyman Library)
by J. J. Anderson (Editor), A. C. Cawley
US $5.91
Paperback Reprint edition
Everymans 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."
—The Author
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Burton Raffel, James Jennings
US $4.79
Reissue Edition
Published by New American Library, Dec 1996
" 'Sir Gawain is different from anything else in the English
language,' writes translator and editor Burton Raffel. "The
Gawain-poet can do an incredible number of things in
brilliant style. He can draw characters so vividly that they
breath, he can paint pictures so vitally that one sees them,
almost feels them; he can be passionately moral; he can
be wickedly comic.
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
Bibliographical
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight :
An Annotated Bibliography, 1978-1989
(Garland Medieval
Bibliographies, Vol 13)
by Meg Stainsby
US $15.00
Hardcover
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, mono-
graphs, performances, and a few reviews of
books. Does not include dissertations.
Thoroughly crossreferenced and indexed."
—Book News, Inc.
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A Companion to the "Gawain"-Poet
by Derek Brewer (Editor), Jonathan Gibson (Editor)
US $35.00
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 from the 15th to the 20th
century. "—Amazon.com
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An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet
(Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library Series)
by Dr. Ad Putter
US $31.60
Longman Pub Group, February 1997
"This book introduces the reader to the
Gawain-poet's four surviving works: Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience,
Pearl and Cleanness. The four poems are
made accessible to the student by setting
them in their relevant historical and
cultural context."—The Publisher
Description and Table of Contents
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From Pearl to Gawain : Forme to Fynisment
by Robert J. Blanch, Julian N. Wasserman
Univ Press of Florida, April 1,1995
US$ 49.95
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 materia l- 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)
Synopsis and Table of Contents
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