Gawain | A Casebook | Keith Busby, Raymond H. Thompson | Taylor & Fran

ABSTRACT

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |36 pages

Introduction

chapter |8 pages

Select Bibliography

chapter 1|50 pages

Gawain: His Reputation, His Courtesy, and His Appearance in Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale

chapter 2|8 pages

Gwalchmei m. Gwyar

chapter 3|14 pages

The Character of Gauvain in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes

chapter 4|8 pages

Gauvain and Fin’ Amors in the Poems of Chrétien de Troyes

chapter 5|14 pages

Arthurian Adventure or Quixotic “Struggle for Life”? A Reading of Some Gauvain Romances in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century FRIEDRICH WOLFZETTEL

chapter 6|18 pages

Diverging Traditions of Gauvain in Some of the Later Old French Verse Romances

chapter 7|16 pages

The Formation of a Gauvain Cycle in Chantilly Manuscript 472

chapter 8|10 pages

The Character of Gauvain in the Thirteenth-Century Prose Romances

chapter 9|26 pages

The Character of Gauvain in the Prose Tristan

chapter 10|8 pages

Gawain Against Arthur: The Impact of a Mythological Pattern upon Arthurian Tradition in Accounts of the Birth of Gawain

chapter 11|14 pages

Crisis and Triumph in the World of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: Gawan in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival

chapter 12|8 pages

Gauvain as Lover in the Middle Dutch Verse Romance Walewein

chapter 13|16 pages

The Transformation of the Figure of Gauvain in Italy

chapter 14|18 pages

Middle English Arthurian Romance: The Repetition and Reputation of Gawain

chapter 15|14 pages

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Poet’s Treatment of the Hero and His Adventure

chapter 16|10 pages

Gawain and Heroic Knighthood in Malory

chapter 17|22 pages

Gawain in Post-Medieval English Literature

chapter 18|18 pages

Sir Gawaine at Liberty Castle: Thomas Berger’s Comic Didacticism in Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel KLAUS P. JANKOFSKY

chapter 19|10 pages

Sir Gawain in Films