Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-53246-3 (ISBN)
Marie Borroff’s acclaimed verse translation, marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes.
Laura L. Howes’s full introduction along with Borroff’s seminal essay, “The Metrical Forms” as well as her “Translator’s Note”.
For comparative study and classroom discussion, two French tales of Sir Gawain, four selections from the original Middle English poem and a passage from the Alliterative Morte Arthure.
Nine critical essays on the poem’s central themes, four of them new to the Second Edition.
A chronology and a selected bibliography.
About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
Marie Borroff (1923–2019) was Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Her verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first published in 1967; it appeared together with her translations of Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, and St. Erkenwald in The Gawain Poet: Complete Works (2011). She was the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study and of Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (1962, 2003). Laura L. Howes is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Chaucer’s Gardens and the Language of Convention (1997) as well as several essays on Chaucer’s poetry, Pearl, The Book of Margery Kempe, and other Middle English works. She is also the editor of Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (2007).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Norton Critical Editions |
| Übersetzer | Marie Borroff |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 132 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 225 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-53246-1 / 0393532461 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-53246-3 / 9780393532463 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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