I plan to go to it.
I read it many years ago and always wanted to "audit" a medieval literature class at ISU to have the chance to read Beowulf, Sir Gawain, etc with a professor instead of just my Wikipedia-informed background, but timing never worked out.
Here were some summary reviews that sounded good to me:
Dev Patel plays a medieval hero on a mysterious quest in David Lowery’s adaptation of the 14th-century Arthurian romance.
www.nytimes.com
David Lowery’s film starring Dev Patel is a dreamy piece of high fantasy that turns an age-old tale into something to be puzzled over anew.
www.theatlantic.com
I like movies (and classic stories) that have a 'What it is about' (plot: the beheading game, trials) vs '
what it is about' (contradictions within the code of chivalry, trials and suffering - is that more the point than the final victory?, etc) but only to a point...as in, "What did the
author think it was italic-
about?", not so much the "As we can see when viewing through the lens of recent X-ism or Y-ism" type.
So maybe is is for the best that I did not audit the ISU class, and can just read the original (to English from old/middle English) translations by Tolkien and his commentaries/famous lecture on them and call it good.
Tolkien
en.wikipedia.org
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo [Tolkien, J R R] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary [Tolkien, J.R.R., Tolkien, Christopher] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
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The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays by Tolkien. J. R. R. ( 2006 ) Paperback on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays by Tolkien. J. R. R. ( 2006 ) Paperback
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