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The Christmas Hero and Yuletide Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Walter S. Phelan

出版	E. Mellen Press, 1992
主題	Literary Criticism / MedievalLiterary Criticism / PoetryLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSocial Science / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN	07734956819780773495685
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GBogAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

An intertextual study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight examining the motif of gift-giving or handsel, this work explores the Christmas hero and looks at the rich culture of medieval crafts and entertainments, especially the drama and the carol. This neo-historical account of the ener gies of yule contains a diversity of contexts outside the Middle Ages, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Murder in the Cathedral. The book's innovative method involves semantic collation, a careful sifting through and alignment of the semes of two texts in a literary diptych, and concludes with a thesaurus of the vocabulary which follows the structure of the pentangle. Through the study of the concepts of Earth, Craft, Virtue, Christmas Joy, and Wound, the pentangle thesaurus brings some balance to the interpretation of the poem by correlating the elements of Creation and Incarnation. It concludes with speculations on the Gawain-poet's relationship to mysticism traditions, especially those indigenous to the North and Midlands in the late 14th century.