Cursed books!
Okay, I am confused.
So this is the book list for my Medieval Literature class:
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Author: WINNEY
BEOWULF
Author: LIUZZA
(Joygasm)
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR VOL 1 (ED: COWEN)
Author: MALORY
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR VOL 2 (ED: COWEN)
Author: MALORY
(Volume 2 is more expensive than volume 1 for some reason)
PEARL
Author: STANBURY
SIR GAWAIN
Author: HAHN
WIFE OF BATH
Author: CHAUCER
(Another one I already owned)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Author: J R R TOLKIEN
(A course that has both Beowulf AND Tolkien!?! Have I died and gone to heaven???)
So, you may have noticed three of these books have the name Sir Gawain in them, two of which are the same title, so I am assuming are the same story, just different translations. Obviously I went for the Tolkien translation, which also had a translation of Pearl in it. So at least two of the titles on this book list are redundant, and if you're not paying attention you're gonna buy the same story twice... possibly three times if Hahn's Sir Gawain is yet another rehashing of the same story.
Can anyone help explain this to me? Are they in fact different stories? Until I know for sure I'm not gonna buy Stanbury's Pearl or the non-Tolkien Sir Gawains, and hopefully I'll never have to because this year my book list comes to: $380.60
Fuck you school!!!
-LS
So this is the book list for my Medieval Literature class:
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Author: WINNEY
BEOWULF
Author: LIUZZA
(Joygasm)
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR VOL 1 (ED: COWEN)
Author: MALORY
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR VOL 2 (ED: COWEN)
Author: MALORY
(Volume 2 is more expensive than volume 1 for some reason)
PEARL
Author: STANBURY
SIR GAWAIN
Author: HAHN
WIFE OF BATH
Author: CHAUCER
(Another one I already owned)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Author: J R R TOLKIEN
(A course that has both Beowulf AND Tolkien!?! Have I died and gone to heaven???)
So, you may have noticed three of these books have the name Sir Gawain in them, two of which are the same title, so I am assuming are the same story, just different translations. Obviously I went for the Tolkien translation, which also had a translation of Pearl in it. So at least two of the titles on this book list are redundant, and if you're not paying attention you're gonna buy the same story twice... possibly three times if Hahn's Sir Gawain is yet another rehashing of the same story.
Can anyone help explain this to me? Are they in fact different stories? Until I know for sure I'm not gonna buy Stanbury's Pearl or the non-Tolkien Sir Gawains, and hopefully I'll never have to because this year my book list comes to: $380.60
Fuck you school!!!
-LS