Gawain: A Casebook

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Series Editor's Preface Introduction Select Bibliography 1 Gawain: His Reputation, His Courtesy, and His Appearance in Chaucer's Squire's Tale 2 Gwalchmei m. Gwyar 3 The Character of Gauvain in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes 4 Gauvain and Fin' Amors in the Poems of Chrétien de Troyes 5 Arthurian Adventure or Quixotic "Struggle for Life"? A Reading of Some Gauvain Romances in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century 6 Diverging Traditions of Gauvain in Some of the Later Old French Verse Romances 7 The Formation of a Gauvain Cycle in Chantilly Manuscript 472 8 The Character of Gauvain in the Thirteenth-Century Prose Romances 9 The Character of Gauvain in the Prose Tristan 10 Gawain Against Arthur: The Impact of a Mythological Pattern upon Arthurian Tradition in Accounts of the Birth of Gawain 11 Crisis and Triumph in the World of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: Gawan in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival 12 Gauvain as Lover in the Middle Dutch Verse Romance Walewein 13 The Transformation of the Figure of Gauvain in Italy 14 Middle English Arthurian Romance: The Repetition and Reputation of Gawain 15 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Poet's Treatment of the Hero and His Adventure 16 Gawain and Heroic Knighthood in Malory 17 Gawain in Post-Medieval English Literature 18 Sir Gawaine at Liberty Castle: Thomas Berger's Comic Didacticism in Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel 19 Sir Gawain in Films About the Contributors Proper Name Index