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Language: English
Published by University Press of America, Inc, Lanham, New York and Oxford, 2002
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Octavo, v, xvii, xix, 408 pages. In Very Good condition. Paperback binding. Spine white and green with with green and white lettering. Covers have very slight wear including light scuffs. Text block has extremely wear including few, faint finger marks to the edges. Reprinted. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Q, ND-Q. 1394190. FP New Rockville Stock.
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- Title
- SIR GAWAIN AND THE KNIGHT OF THE GREEN CHAPEL
- Author
- Simms, Norman Toby
- Publisher
- University Press of America, Inc, Lanham, New York and Oxford
- Publication year
- 2002
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0761821511
- ISBN 13
- 9780761821519
- Edition
- Reprinted.
- Seller catalogs
- European History, Literature
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.
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About the Author
Norman Simms is Senior Lecturer at Waikato University, New Zealand.
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