Another gem from the British Library blog. Here, Julian Harrison from the Medieval Literature team takes a playful look at the illustrations of the original manuscript. ‘Its full-page illustrations have a charm all of their own, even if they were once dismissed as ‘coarsely executed’. … Continue reading ‘…the Green Knight mounted on his green horse holds his severed head aloft’
Critic and Arthurian enthusiast Xan Brooks comments on the intertextual adventures of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in The Guardian: ‘I like this idea that Gawain is modern, somehow ahead of his time, complicated in a way that the other knights aren’t. It helps … Continue reading ‘It needs to be nightmarish, hallucinogenic and scary’
Jon Wise, who will be joining us to discuss The Power and the Glory in a few weeks, appears alongside Mariella Fostrup and guests including Peter James and Louise Doughty for a special Graham Greene-themed episode of Radio 4’s Open Book. Find out about what … Continue reading Open Book’s Graham Greene Special
Speakers: Tison Pugh, Sabina Rahman, and Usha Vishnuvajjala. At our 8 December 2021 event we will be considering the recent film The Green Knight (dir. David Lowery and starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander) alongside its source text, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a late 14th-century Middle English … Continue reading Cardiff BookTalk: The Green Knight
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