Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Facing Page Translation

Name: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Facing Page Translation
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ISBN: 9780921149927

ISBN-10: 0921149921

ISBN-13: 9780921149927

Edition: 2007

Authors: James Winny, James Winny

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The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to most twentieth-century readers. Written in an obscure dialect, it is far more difficult to digest in the original than are most other late medieval English works. Yet any translation is bound to lose much of the flavour of the original.This edition of the poem offers the original text together with a facing-page translation. With the alliterative Middle English before the reader, James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal rendering in modern English. This edition also provides an introduction, explanatory and textual…

Book details

List price: $17.75
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 5/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction


Sir Gawain and the Green Knight


Notes on the Text


A Note on Some Words



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