This work offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the fourteenth-century English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The methodological and theoretical landscape of medieval literary studies, the narrative structure, the significance of green, the famous pentangle, Gawain's threefold testing and temptation, and the beheading motif are discussed.
- ISBN10 087413580X
- ISBN13 9780874135800
- Publish Date 30 June 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint University of Delaware Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English