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Higley, Sarah L. "David Lowery’s "The Green Knight": An Ecocinematic Dialogue between Film and Poem." Medieval Ecocriticisms 2 (2022): 53–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.32773/ykvn8089.

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A “faithful” film adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has long been awaited. The romance lends itself well, it seems, to cinema in its vivid staging, psychology, and suspense. David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2019) reflects its visual splendor but dismantles its plot, the relationship of its characters, re-signifies its significant objects—ax, shield, and girdle. It forefronts contemporary anxieties about film revision of a medieval poem and invites us to examine our technical engagement with and representation, then and now, of the natural world. By suggesting that Gawain might die by the Knight's third blow, Lowery challenges the human exceptionalism inherent in all fantasies of the hero’s journey through a forest (the point of which is to get through it alive). Rather, Gawain remains with the Knight in a state of ambiguity, and either engraves or becomes the stump shown at the end, which bears his new name. This essay puts both poem and film in dialogue with each other to show how Lowery's ecocinematic film "re-greens" a text already given much ecocritical examination.

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Breeze, Andrew. "Did Sir John Stanley write Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?" SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature. 27, no. 1 (2022): 81–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.17811/selim.27.2022.81-113.

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The Gawain Poet was the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a fourteenth-century Arthurian romance, and perhaps the greatest poem ever written in Northern England. Its anonymous creator ranks with Marvell, Wordsworth, and the Brontës as amongst the North's supreme literary artists. The question naturally arises as to who he was. In 2004 the present writer gave an answer, publishing (in the US journal Arthuriana) an analysis of the poem and its associated works Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience. He there proposed that the unknown poet was Sir John Stanley (c. 1350-1414), the evidence including dialect, topography, and verbal parallels between the four texts and Stanley's correspondence. What follows offers a revised survey of publications before and after 2004, examining whether they strengthen the case for Stanley as the Gawain Poet, weaken it, or demolish it completely.

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Hussey, S. S. "Vocabulary in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Florilegium 11, no. 1 (1992): 22–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.11.003.

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Derek Pearsall. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:." Chaucer Review 46, no. 1-2 (2011): 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.46.1_2.0248.

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Myer, Thomas. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 1771." Explicator 53, no. 4 (1995): 188–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.1995.9937276.

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ANDERSON, J. J. "SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, 1008–1009." Notes and Queries 41, no. 4 (1994): 443—a—443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nq/41-4-443a.

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Reynolds, Evelyn. "Kynde in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Arthuriana 28, no. 2 (2018): 28–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/art.2018.0013.

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O’Néill, Rosamond Eileen. "Development of gender equality in English medieval society fixed in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Beacon: Journal for Studying Ideologies and Mental Dimensions 2, no. 1 (2019): 010110110. http://dx.doi.org/10.55269/thebeacon.2.010110110.

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In the work, the author studies the ideological use of Celtic symbolism in the chivalric poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" to depict the gender equality. It is demonstrated that "Sir Gawain" can be considered not only a novel, but a social work coining gender equality in medieval society. In "Sir Gawain" different signs play an important role, form the reader's attitude to the idea of gender equality. They also build a certain Christian ideological view of the world, communicate the religious maxims and ideological attitudes, within which the equality narration is built.

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Jucker, Andreas H. "Courtesy and Politeness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 49, no. 3 (2014): 5–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0007.

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Abstract A close reading of three selected passages of the Middle English alliterative romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight provides a detailed picture of fictional and fairy-tale manifestations of courtly and polite behaviour in Middle English, a period that imported many new terms of courtesy and politeness from French. In the three passages Sir Gawain is visited in his bedchamber by the lady of the house, who tries to seduce him and thus puts him in a severe dilemma of having to be courteous to the lady and at the same time loyal to his host and to the code of chivalry. The analysis shows how Sir Gawain and the lady of the house engage in a discursive struggle of the true implications of courteous behaviour. It also shows how the two characters use nominal and pronominal terms of address to negotiate their respective positions of power, dominance and submission towards each other. And, finally, an analysis of requests reveals how the lady carefully selects appropriate strategies to reflect the severity of the imposition of her requests and her momentary standing in their discursive struggle.

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Vitto, Cindy. "Literature and Life: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Medieval Feminist Newsletter 23 (March 1997): 35–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/1054-1004.1382.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Adaptations"

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Wilson, Joy Blanche. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a genealogical, archaeological and architectural study of facsimiles, transcriptions, editions, translations and adaptations of the poem." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28049.

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This thesis presents a new framework for use in bibliographical and historical studies of individual texts. I interrogate Sir Gawain and the Green Knight genealogically, archaeologically, and architecturally to reveal a tangible network of texts that stretches across English— speaking society. This method opens up the poem to new analytical approaches by making it possible to locate diverse texts on a family tree, and understand their relationship to each other. A transcription, or a translation, for instance, becomes kin to a tarot card. Chapter One, the introduction to the thesis, provides an explanation of my methodology. I clarify how I apply the terms ‘genealogy’, ‘archaeology’, and ‘architecture’ to texts. Using Salic law as a base, I refer to the scribal words of the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the MS. Cotton Nero A. x manuscript as the archetype. Facsimiles, transcriptions, and editions are located on the direct line. They can legitimately inherit the title Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The cadet line is comprised of translations. They can never inherit the title, but because they are genealogically close to the direct line they can legitimately bear the name. All retellings and adaptations are on the female line. They can vary from the archetype as much or as little as their creators please. I apply the term ‘archaeology’ to the retrieval and documentation of the texts and the cultural and social changes that can be observed through this method of study. Because the framework of the family tree branches across disparate genealogical lines, the structure and organisation of these texts can vary widely. I use the term ‘architecture’ to draw these differences into a cohesive whole. Chapter Two is an exploration of the poem’s transmission along the direct line and cadet line in respect of the facsimiles, transcriptions, editions, and translations. I chart the textual history of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to establish clearly the structural basis for my investigation of the female line which constitutes the bulk of the thesis. In so doing, I identify significant archaeological and architectural movements. The remainder of the thesis is a genealogical, archaeological, and architectural examination of a selection of texts from the female line, which has received much less critical attention to date. Chapter Three and Four investigate the fertile fields of adult and juvenile performances and events. Chapters Five and Six investigate the poem’s use in adult and juvenile literature. Chapter Seven considers musical adaptations of the poem. Chapter Eight probes the rich archaeological field of the World Wide Web. On many occasions I have been able to trace the family lines that adaptors have experienced and used. This is of archaeological as well as of genealogical interest, because it lays open the structure of the family tree for scrutiny, and the family history for analysis. I conclude that the framework I have developed provides a feasible and manageable approach to the historical, cultural, and social analysis of texts. I suggest, furthermore, that this framework affords a model for investigating other seminal texts and their progeny.

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Andersson, Tobias. "Food, Sex and Violence : Carnival in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10398.

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This essay discusses the aspects of Carnival in the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the opposition between ordinary official life and the Carnival. Peter Burke’s and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on the Carnival are used throughout the analyse of the poem mainly with focus on four different aspects; food, sex, violence and games. The essay also discusses the questioning of rank, which was central to the spirit of the Carnival where all were considered equal. Gawain is the protagonist who throughout the poem manages to resist the spirit of the Carnival despite being challenged by three different antagonists who in their on ways symbolise the Carnival; the Green knight with aggressive and mocking speech, the Lady of the Castle who acts as the seducer and Lord Bertilak who in his three hunts shows that he embraces the spirit of the Carnival.

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Barraclough, Jane. "Systems of exchange and reciprocity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61755.

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Crummy, Elizabeth Anne. "Constructing a Reputation in Retrospect in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625673.

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Searcy, Deborah W. "The Binding Girdle: TrawÞe and Gift Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Scholarly Repository, 2007. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/107.

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Integrating chivalric romance narrative with complicated instances of pre-modern exchange, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight reveals the binding power of pledging one?s trawþe and the transformative power of exchanged objects in a gift economy. By reading the Exchange of Blows and the Exchange of Winnings according to the social demands of a gift economy and of a pledged trawþe, this thesis delineates the nature of Gawain?s failure to keep his word to his host. I offer my analysis of gift theory to suggest how the poem reveals the tensions between chivalric pledges of loyalty and nascent capitalist exchanges. R. A. Shoaf demonstrates the presence in the text of an emerging commercial economy, claiming the poem ?involves the transformation of Gawain?into a consumer and?into a merchant? (3-4). While Gawain behaves as a nascent capitalist, as evident by his passive reception of the exchanged items and his lack of generosity, the other residents of Hautdesert do not. The workings of gift exchange were first postulated by social anthropologists: Marcel Mauss focused on reciprocity, while Branislaw Malinowski, and later, Annette Weiner, argued that gift exchanges operate in a circular system, with repayment not necessarily directed toward the original donor. The exchanges between Bertilak and Gawain show elements of the requisite reciprocity of Mauss? formulation, yet the presence of Morgan le Fey and Lady Bertilak complicates the exchanges and suggests an economy of circularity. While Geraldine Heng and Sheila Fischer have argued that the women of the text exhibit agency?Morgan initiates the Exchange of Blows and Lady Bertilak gives kisses and the girdle?this project argues that it is the performative presence of the trawþe between Gawain and Bertilak that creates a male bond, ultimately denying the women authority. The trawþe circumscribes Morgan?s control and allows for the exchange of Lady Bertilak as an object. Richard Firth Green addresses the late medieval tensions in the semantic definitions of ?truth,? arguing that ?in an oral society the precise words of the oath?bind the speaker and listener by virtue of an inherent performative power? (60). While Gawain functions as a self-interested capitalist, keeping the girdle for its value to save his life, the chivalric trawþe ensures that failure to adhere to the terms of the agreement results not only in contractual liability but knightly disgrace. Gawain?s failure to reciprocate the gift leads to his dishonor, for the medieval gift that is not reciprocated ?would make the recipient dependent on the donor,? endangering ?his honour, freedom and even his life? (Gurevich 180). In medieval gift systems the values of exchanged objects are determined not only by their function within a competitive game about prestige and power, but also by their identification with the donors themselves. Annette Weiner?s articulation of the inalienability of certain objects?the possibility that some objects are ?kept? despite apparent exchange?is useful in explaining the significance of the girdle in Gawain?s failure. Weiner explains that what ?makes a possession inalienable is its exclusive and cumulative identity with a particular series of owners through time? (Weiner 33). The girdle presents just such an inalienable possession; Bertilak ?keeps? the girdle despite Gawain?s physical possession of it. Gawain remains indebted to his adversary, and although he is released from his trawþe, he will continue to wear the girdle as a sign of his failure and the bond with the Green Knight. Ultimately, the court of Camelot assumes the sign of the green girdle, a subtle warning by the Gawain-poet of the inevitable spread of un-trawþe in prioritizing the values of self-interested capitalist exchange.

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Meredith, Elysse Taillon. "Wearing identity : colour and costume in Meliador and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7546.

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Worn items are a crucial part of non-verbal social interaction that simultaneously exhibits communal, cultural, and political structures and individual preferences. This thesis examines the role of fictional costume and colour in constructing identities within two fourteenth-century Arthurian verse narratives: Froissart’s Middle French Meliador and the anonymous Middle English Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. To emphasise the imaginative value of material cultures and discuss the potential reception of fictional objects, the argument draws on illuminations from nine manuscripts of prose Arthurian stories. Particularly stressing the role of colour in garments, the first chapter examines the issues of analysing literary costume, reviews the provenances of the texts and illuminations, and establishes the relevant historical background concerning fashion, symbolism, and materials of construction (such as fabric, dyes, and decorations). This is followed by two chapters on men’s items. First, the use of courtly clothes and colour-related epithets in manipulating perception and deceiving internal and external audiences is explored. Second, the symbolic value of arms and armour in tournament society is evaluated alongside the tensions between war and armed games that such tools reveal. Chapter four expands on the preceding chapters by discussing the application of heraldry as a malleable identifier. Chapter five considers how ladies’ garments, bodies, and character are coalesced and separated through adoption or rejection of literary techniques, thereby creating conflict between noblewomen as social commodities and as persons with narrative agency. The final chapter analyses the employment of wearable items as gifts and commodities and how such objects can alter interpersonal relationships. Colour and costume are a means by which narratives can explore, accept, or reject literary topoi. Their myriad functions allow the active manipulation of identity, relationships, and internal and external audiences. By focusing on the pluralities and ambiguities of meaning connected to colour and costume, this thesis explores how these materials mediate between conflicting connotations to create new meanings within the narratives.

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Pugh, William W. Tison. "Play and game in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Troilus and Criseyde /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978260.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 228-242). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Welter, Brian Matthew. "A reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a spiritual theology of imperfection." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ55437.pdf.

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Binkley, Maddison R. "Beyond the Beheading Game: Gender Fluidity and its Functions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1544716765807434.

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Putter, Ad. "Narrative technique and chivalric ethos in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Old French roman courtois." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259478.

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Books on the topic "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Adaptations"

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Morpurgo, Michael. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Walker, 2005.

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Morpurgo, Michael. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Candlewick Press, 2004.

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Kenneth, Pickering, ed. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A two-act adaptation of the fourteenth century poem. J. Garnet Miller, 2000.

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Merwin, W. S. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008.

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Barlow, Steve. Sir Gawain and the green knight. Ginn, 1997.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Research & Education Association, 1996.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dover Publications, 2003.

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Sir Gawain and the green knight. Hackett Pub. Co., 2011.

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John, Gardner. CliffsNotes Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002.

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Sir Gawain & the green knight: A new verse translation. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Adaptations"

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Davenport, Tony. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In A Companion to Medieval Poetry. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444319095.ch21.

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Gustafson, Kevin. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c.1350-c.1500. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996355.ch38.

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Stodola, Denise. "Spatial Rhetoric in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In Public Declamations. Brepols Publishers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.disput-eb.5.107454.

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Osberg, Richard H. "Rewriting Romance: From Sir Gawain to The Green Knight." In Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Brepols Publishers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.asmar-eb.4.00010.

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Warner, Lawrence. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Tradition." In The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429197390-26.

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Scala, Elizabeth. "The Wanting Words of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230107564_2.

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Tracy, Kisha G. "Gawain-Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, to Forget or not to Forget." In Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55675-8_6.

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Lester, G. A. "Examples of Analysis: Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry. Macmillan Education UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24561-1_9.

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Rudd, Gillian. "Shifting Identities and Landscapes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In Medieval English Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46960-1_4.

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Vitto, Cindy L. "Deceptive Simplicity: Children’s Versions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403982483_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Adaptations"

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Wu, Qian. "Journey of Test and Self-discovery ----Chivalric Virtues and Human Nature in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." In 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education. Atlantis Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.57.

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