Sir Gawain and the Knight of the Green Chapel

Norman Simms (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

428 Seiten

2002
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-2151-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Norman Simms is Senior Lecturer at Waikato University, New Zealand.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 From Judith to Grendel and Beyond the Pepuce: The Blood of Menstruation, Decapitation and Circumcision
Chapter 4 The Ungreen Chapel and a Bargain which is Unbinding
Chapter 5 From the Castle of Discourse to the Chapel of Repression
Chapter 6 Crypto-Jewish and Converso Contexts: The Unbearable Darkness of Being Nothing
Chapter 7 The Romance of Jewishness: Arthur, Order, and Oratia
Chapter 8 Yep, Slime, and the Green Girdle
Chapter 9 From Sanctification to Scarification of the Name: The Massacre of Innocence
Chapter 10 From Gawain's Circumcision to his Circumspection: Why this Knight is Different from All Other Knights
Chapter 11 Epilogue
Chapter 12 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.6.2002
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 217 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7618-2151-1 / 0761821511
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-2151-9 / 9780761821519
Zustand	Neuware