Considering an expanded ebook edition of my June 2018 book on Sir Gawain, I undertook a quick hunt for the scholarly work produced since then. I came back with a plump catch-bag of new scholarly works on the (North Staffordshire) hunting scenes in Sir Gawain:

* ABSTRACT: The Hunting Scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Revisited…

“this essay explores the hunt scenes in terms of the poet’s representation of the hunted animals — the deer, boar and fox — and demonstrates that the descriptions of the hunt are designed to arouse our compassion for the quarries. The sympathy for the hunted serves to both clarify and highlight the direct connection between Gawain and the hunted animals.”

* OPEN ACCESS: The human animal: strange transformations in fourteenth-century Middle English romance…

“the second chapter explores the depiction of Sir Gawain’s courtly test as a hunting sequence all its own in which Gawain ultimately skins himself of his hide.”

* OPEN ACCESS: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight y la restauracion literaria de un heroe Arturico: de las artes venandi al romance caballeresco (in Spanish)…

“the narrative functions assigned by the poet to the long descriptions of the hunting adventures of Sir Bertilak, pointing to the close relationship that links it to the artes venandi composed during the period and the models of virtue and masculinity proposed by its texts.”

* SHORT ABSTRACT: Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight…

“Some Middle English narratives juxtapose representations of hunting and histories of aristocratic loss. The Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight redirect anxieties about the contingency and precariousness of lordly advantage in a world that sometimes seems to be ruled by Fortune.”

* OPEN ACCESS: A detailed ‘in progress’ 2018 paper on the seasonal feasting that followed the hunt, Feasts and feasting in the fourteenth century — Gawain and the Green Knight at Christmas.

* ABSTRACT: Tangentially relevant to the topic is a new and partly Tolkien-related article which ambitiously considers… “to what extent Germanic mythology may inform the representation of magic, nature, and wisdom in Sir Gawain“, “Etaynez þat Hym Anelede of þe Heӡe Felle”: Ghosts of Giants in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Broadly plausible on the ‘Thor and the giants’ — Gawain similarities, and builds on the 2013 article “A Scandinavian Link to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?”).

* OPEN ACCESS: Also a 2017 article, Sounding the Hunt in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on the sounds of Gawain.