Harry Potter's Medieval Hallows: Chaucer and the "Gawain"-Poet.
- Author / Editor
- Groves, Beatrice.
Harry Potter's Medieval Hallows: Chaucer and the "Gawain"-Poet.
- Published
- Beatrice Groves, Literary Allusion in "Harry Potter" (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 38-59.
- Description
- Argues that the most "tempting objects" in J. K. Rowling's "Deathly Hallows" derive in part from the girdle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; the "thirty pieces of silver that persuade" the biblical Judas to betray Jesus; and the "deadly pile of gold" in PardT, the latter being the "direct source" of the Rowling chapter titled "Tale of the Three Brothers," with variants derived from the "Buddhist folk tradition" and fairy tales.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Allusion in "Harry Potter."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Pardoner and His Tale