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Fruoco, Jonathan, editor. Unveiling the Green Knight. Nanterre, France: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2024. Intercalaires: agrégation d’anglais. Print. 978-2-84016-546-0. [x2
Description:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the oldest tales in English literature. Haunted by the passage of time, this story takes us to the frontier between tradition and innovation, between a romanticized Arthurian chivalric past and its poetic reinterpretation in the English language.
Such distinctions are further troubled in David Lowery’s film adaptation, The Green Knight, which offers a contemporary and highly stylized vision of the themes in the medieval poem. This volume explores the myriad facets of the Gawain legend through a comparative analysis of the poem and the film. Authors examine these works’ themes, motifs, and narrative techniques, while shedding light on their historical and cultural resonances. Raising issues such as self-discovery, gender politics, the relationship to nature, and questions of morality and ethics, this volume of essays provides new perspectives on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s continuing relevance across the centuries.
Contents:
Introduction. From Arthurian Legend to Modern Cinema: Setting the Stage for The Green Knight. 9-15.
Jonathan Fruoco
Exploring Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
An introduction to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 19-43.
Helen Cooper
“Of sum auenturus þyng an vncouþe tale”: Style, Sources and Analogues of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 45-80.
Anne Marie D’Arcy
A Manuscript-Oriented Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 81-95.
Madeleine S. Killacky
The Pentangle in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 97-112.
Shawn Phillip Cooper
A New Perspective on an Old Tale: David Lowery’s Green Knight
Masculinity, Monstrosity, and the Uncanny in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021). 115-139.
Georgina Anderson
The Green Knight or The Imagination of a Cyclic Time. 141-154.
Justine Breton
Amplifying Gawain’s Identity Crisis in The Green Knight. 155-171.
Danko Kamčevski
Translatio operum? Adaptation as Creative Destruction in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021). 173-198.
Cyril Besson
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