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

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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.

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The Knight on His Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1996, University of Delaware Press

ISBN-13: 9780874135800

Hardcover