The Seduction of Sir Gawain - Couverture souple

Glowka, Arthur Wayne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1480066060 ISBN 13 : 9781480066069

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Violence, mutilation, magic, eroticism, a sad wedding, and a happy ending--there is something in The Seduction of Sir Gawain for readers of all kinds.When a green giant challenges King Arthur’s knights to play a decapitation game, Sir Gawain, a young, handsome knight famous for his physical strength and moral virtues, accepts the challenge. On the quest to face his death, he learns the limits of his bravery and his moral perfection and discovers his intense sexual desire and love for a woman many years his senior.Sir Gawain survives the beheading game but returns to Camelot in shame, leading a veiled woman by the hand. No one knows how she really looks until Sir Gawain strips off her veil in full view of the court. In the end, love conquers all, even when advanced age threatens happiness and sexual fulfillment.The story combines the mystery and irony of the medieval romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the feminine wish fulfillment of Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" and its analogs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Arthur Wayne Glowka (born in Weimar, Texas, in 1952) grew up in San Antonio, Texas, in the shadow of the Alamo, and heard heroic tales about its fall from an early age. The Irish nuns who ran his elementary school directed him to books about King Arthur and Robin Hood, and his study of Spanish in high school has led to a lifelong fascination with Latin America and Spain. He studied English at the University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1973; M.A., 1975), where he fell in love with medieval tales told in their original languages. Before pursuing his doctorate in English at the University of Delaware (English, 1980), he spent two years away from formal study to fish and to plunder libraries and used bookstores for books on fishing and a wide variety of other subjects. His scholarly publications have treated metrics, the legendary history of Britain, Geoffrey Chaucer, and lexicography. He is currently working on a series of medieval romances retold for the sophisticated contemporary romance reader.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1480066060
• ISBN 13: 9781480066069
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg