Excalibur is not a thing, something you can hold in your hand.
Excalibur is the good in you.
The power to do good, to stand up for what's right, to slay dragons, to capture bank robbers.
You always carry Excalibur in your heart.


Robert Tinnell, Kids of the Round Table (1995)

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Recent Collection of Essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Green Knight

Another recent publication on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and David Lowery's recent adaptation, The Green Knight

I'll start with the full citation. Book details and order information are available from the publisher at https://presses-universitaires.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/produit/unveiling-the-green-knight/


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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