The Knight on His Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By Piotr Sadowski

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087413580X
• ISBN13: 9780874135800
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 6.5"