Sir Gawain and the Knight of the Green Chapel
Although the Middle English poem known as 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is assumed to be a kind of comic or satirical romance deriving from the Christian courts of England in the fourteenth century, several strange features suggest a different origin and generic categorization. Renaming it Sir Gawain and the Knight of the Green Chapel initiates the defamiliarization process. This book argues that the poet and his or her milieu belong to the small and confused converso community left...
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Simms has thought about the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for over three decades, and laments that he has room to address only a few of its facets. Nevertheless, the reading he offers varies so radically from convention that he changes the title to alert readers. The narrator he finds is not comfortable with Christian identity, but has no wish to return to the Judaism of his or her family background. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBooknewsSimms has thought about the Middle English poem for over three decades, and laments that he has room to address only a few of its facets. Nevertheless, the reading he offers varies so radically from convention that he changes the title to alert readers. The narrator he finds is not comfortable with Christian identity, but has no wish to return to the Judaism of his or her family background. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 From Judith to Grendel and Beyond the Pepuce: The Blood of Menstruation, Decapitation and Circumcision Chapter 4 The Ungreen Chapel and a Bargain which is Unbinding Chapter 5 From the Castle of Discourse to the Chapel of Repression Chapter 6 Crypto-Jewish and Converso Contexts: The Unbearable Darkness of Being Nothing Chapter 7 The Romance of Jewishness: Arthur, Order, and Oratia Chapter 8 Yep, Slime, and the Green Girdle Chapter 9 From Sanctification to Scarification of the Name: The Massacre of Innocence Chapter 10 From Gawain's Circumcision to his Circumspection: Why this Knight is Different from All Other Knights Chapter 11 Epilogue Chapter 12 Index
\ BooknewsSimms has thought about the Middle English poem for over three decades, and laments that he has room to address only a few of its facets. Nevertheless, the reading he offers varies so radically from convention that he changes the title to alert readers. The narrator he finds is not comfortable with Christian identity, but has no wish to return to the Judaism of his or her family background. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
