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Author : Derek Brewer,Jonathan Gibson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085991433X
It ends with a discussion of the reception of the Morte Darthur from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and a select bibliography.
Author : Derek Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:788207724
Author : John Anthony Burrow
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746308783
This book presents a comprehensive account of what is known about the four poems commonly ascribed to the Gawain poet.
Author : Ad Putter,Myra Stokes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141395265
A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars. This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. In one of the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur's court, must keep a deadly bargain with a monstrous knight and resist the advances of his host's beautiful wife. The dream vision of Pearl depicts a bereaved father whose lost child leads him to glimpse heaven. And in moral poems based on stories from the Bible, Cleanness warns against sins of the flesh and of desecration, while Patience encourages readers to endure suffering as God's will. Little is known about the so-called 'Gawain poet', who wrote during the late fourteenth century. It is believed that he came from south-east Cheshire, an important cultural and economic centre at the time, and he was clearly well-read in Latin, French and English. Although he is not named as the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, the four works have been attributed to him based on a careful comparison of their language, date and themes. Myra Stokes was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol University. Her books include Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman and The Language of Jane Austen. Ad Putter teaches at the English Department and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, where is Professor of Medieval English Literature. His monographs include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian Romance and An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, and he is also co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend.
Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780859916424
Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century, including film and black popular culture. Eleven essays by leading Arthurians lead off with an overview of the field suggesting directions that Arthurian studies must take to remain vital. Other essays contain innovative approaches, overviews of specific areas of Arthurian studies, and suggestions for new ways to approach Arthurian material; they range over Malory, Latin Arthurian literature, Gawain and the Green Knight, Merlin in the twenty-first century, Tennyson's Idylls, Arthur in African-American culture, current trends in criticism, Arthurian fiction, and Arthurian film. Contributors: ROBERT BLANCH, DEREK BREWER, P.J.C. FIELD, SIAN ECHARD, PETER GOODRICH, KEVIN HARTY, NORRIS J. LACY, BARBARATEPA LUPACK, DAVID STAINES, RAYMOND THOMPSON, JULIAN WASSERMAN, BONNIE WHEELER.
Author : Cecilia A. Hatt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843844198
A fresh examination of the four poems of the Cotton manuscript, arguing that they share a profound theological vision.
Author : Helen Fulton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470672372
This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and explores why it is still integral to contemporary culture. Offers a comprehensive survey from the earliest to the most recent works Features an impressive range of well-known international contributors Examines contemporary additions to the Arthurian canon, including film and computer games Underscores an understanding of Arthurian literature as fundamental to western literary tradition
Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521841672
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Author : Rebecca Lemon,Emma Mason,Jonathan Roberts,Christopher Rowland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 959 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118241158
This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it
Author : Ethan Campbell
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580443081
Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within depictions of flawed priest-like characters.
Author : Michelle M. Sauer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438108346
Some of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark onliterature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, William Shakespeare. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600"is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from the beginnings to theyear 1600, featuring approximately 600 entries ranging in length from300 to 2,500 words.
Author : Malcolm Andrew,Ronald Waldron
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520046315
This third edition of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been newly revised and updated, taking account of some of the more important textual and interpretative notes and articles published on the poems since the appearance of the first edition in 1978.
Author : Piotr Spyra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317033912
Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continuous narrative. While it is widely accepted that the poems attributed to the Pearl-Poet ought to be read together, this book demonstrates that instead of being analyzed as four distinct, though interconnected, textual entities, they ought to be studied as a single literary unit that produces meaning through its own intricate internal structure. Piotr Spyra defines the epistemological thought of Saint Augustine as an interpretive key which, when applied to the composite text of the manuscript, reveals a fabric of thematic continuity. This book ultimately provides the reader with a clear sense of the poet's perspective on the nature of human knowledge as well as its moral implications and with a deeper understanding of how the poems bring the theological and philosophical problems of the Middle Ages to bear on the individual human experience.
Author : Jane Beal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9781793646767
"From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and St Erkenwald, exploring key ideas that will inform a deeper understanding and appreciation of this medieval English writer's work"--
Author : J. J. Anderson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 071907102X
This literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its center, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. Despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.