Background
Borroff, Marie was born on September 10, 1923 in New York City. Daughter of Albert Ramon and Marie (Bergersen) Borroff.
( This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain...)
This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes Marie Borroff’s celebrated, newly revised verse translation with supporting materials not to be found in any other single volume. The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, an essay on the metrical form, the translator’s note, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations to assist readers in the study of this canonical Arthurian romance. “Contexts” presents two French tales of Sir Gawain and a passage from the Alliterative Morte Arthure, also translated by Marie Borroff, as well as three selections from the original Middle English poem. “Criticism” collects ten interpretive essays on the poem’s central themes. Contributors include Alain Renoir, Marie Borroff, J. A. Burrow, A. Kent Hieatt, W. A. Davenport, Ralph Hanna III, Lynn Staley Johnson, Jonathan Nicholls, Geraldine Heng, and Leo Carruthers. A Chronology of important historical and literary dates and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Borroff, Marie was born on September 10, 1923 in New York City. Daughter of Albert Ramon and Marie (Bergersen) Borroff.
She graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor and Master of Arts in 1946, and from Yale University with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1956.
Teaching assistant, University of Chicago, 1946-1947; instructor department English, Smith College, 1948-1951; assistant professor, Smith College, 1956-1959; associate professor, Smith College, 1959; visiting assistant Professor of English, Yale University, 1957-1958; visiting associate professor, Yale University, 1959-1956O; associate Professor of English, Yale University, 1960-1965; professor, Yale University, 1965-1971; William Lampson professor, Yale University, 1971-1992; Sterling Professor of English, Yale University, 1992-1994; Sterling Professor of English emeritus, since 1994; Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1973-1974. Fellow Ezra Stiles College, Yale.
( This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain...)
(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
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Board governments Yale University Press, 1988-1998. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Modern Language Association, Academy American Poets, Medieval Academy American, Phi Beta Kappa.