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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter de Francis Ingledew

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter

Autor Francis Ingledew
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 apr 2006
Francis Ingledew's book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III's foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter. As well as providing the basis for a thorough reinterpretation of the poem's purposes and meanings, this argument dates to the mid-fourteenth-century reign of Edward III (1327–77) a poem conventionally ascribed to the reign of Richard II (1377–99).
 
Through close readings of the poem and of an array of overlooked historical sources, Ingledew presents Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a critique of Edward III's sexual and military behavior. Ingledew's argument takes him deep into chivalric practice in Edward's court of the 1340s, much of it connected with the early years of war with France. Ingledew pursues the significance of sexual scandal associated with Edward, especially the rape of the Countess of Salisbury confidently imputed to him by the formidable Liégois historian Jean le Bel. At the same time that he was trying to conquer France and Scotland and preside over a court vulnerable to scandal, Edward also called on the history (as it was seen) of King Arthur and the Round Table, associating himself with Arthur's imperial and moral authority through the founding of the Order of the Garter. In its portrayal of the Order of the Garter, Ingledew argues, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight sets itself at odds with Edward's central ethical and political projects.
"Exhaustively researched and insightfully theorized, Ingledew's study proposes historical, cultural, and discursive contexts for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight more comprehensive, and more persuasive, than any hitherto attempted. It sets an exalted critical and scholarly standard against which to judge future interpretations of this complex and elegant poem." — Robert Hanning, Columbia University
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780268031763
ISBN-10: 0268031762
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 160 x 231 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: MR – University of Notre Dame Press

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“Francis Ingledew, in ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ and the Order of the Garter, proposes a radical, and in many ways plausible, new reading of the poem, which relates it much more closely to the foundation of the Order of the Garter. . . . [Ingledew argues] that the poem fits . . . into the heyday of Edward III, perhaps dating from the 1350s, when Edward was regarded as a model of chivalry by English and Continental historians. . . . [Ingledew positions] the poem . . . [as] a contemporary response to, and critique of, chivalry and sexual morality at Edward’s court. . . . Whether they are totally or partially convinced by its arguments, medieval literary scholars and historians will need to take account of this book.” —Times Literary Supplement

“While a number of studies have explored the importance of the inscription to a reading of the poem—including even whether it was the work of the poem’s original scribe—Francis Ingledew’s ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ and the Order of the Garter is by far the most meticulously researched and the most ambitious.” —Speculum

“What Ingledew does very successfully is to connect the story of Sir Gawain and its vision of history with contemporary historiography and chronicle accounts of Edward and his affair with the Countess of Salisbury. . . . Ingledew’s exploration of the connections between the story of the founding of the Order of the Garter and the plot of Sir Gawain is also rewarding.” —Modern Philology

“[After] the indignities to which Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is sometimes subjected, Francis Ingledew’s close attention to its relationship with medieval chronicle (notably those of Froissart and Jean le Bel) and the conflicting accounts of Edward III’s alleged crime make for a very compelling and fascinating argument. There is much of value here.” —Medium Aevum

“Francis Ingledew’s thesis in ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ and the Order of the Garter is not only that the Garter motto is authorial, but that SGGK itself is a cloaked rebuke of sexual wrongdoing in Edward’s court in the 1340s. . . . [A] provocative and important book; it cannot be ignored.” —Arthuriana

Notă biografică

Francis Ingledew is professor in the School of English, Philosophy, and Humanities, Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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Francis Ingledew's book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III's foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter.