The Christmas Hero And Yuletide Tradition In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

Author : Walter S. Phelan
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002399058

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The Christmas Hero and Yuletide Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Walter S. Phelan Pdf

An intertextual study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight examining the motif of gift-giving or handsel, this work explores the Christmas hero and looks at the rich culture of medieval crafts and entertainments, especially the drama and the carol. This neo-historical account of the ener gies of yule contains a diversity of contexts outside the Middle Ages, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Murder in the Cathedral. The book's innovative method involves semantic collation, a careful sifting through and alignment of the semes of two texts in a literary diptych, and concludes with a thesaurus of the vocabulary which follows the structure of the pentangle. Through the study of the concepts of Earth, Craft, Virtue, Christmas Joy, and Wound, the pentangle thesaurus brings some balance to the interpretation of the poem by correlating the elements of Creation and Incarnation. It concludes with speculations on the Gawain-poet's relationship to mysticism traditions, especially those indigenous to the North and Midlands in the late 14th century.

Author : P. S. Langeslag
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844259

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Seasons in the Literatures of the Medieval North by P. S. Langeslag Pdf

A fresh examination of how the seasons are depicted in medieval literature.

Author : Douglas Wilson,G. Tyler Fischer
Publisher : Veritas Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1932168443

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Omnibus II by Douglas Wilson,G. Tyler Fischer Pdf

Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191669217

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Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England by Michael Johnston Pdf

Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy. The end of the fourteenth century in England witnessed power devolving to the gentry, who became one of the dominant political and economic forces in provincial society. As Johnston demonstrates, this social change also affected England's literary culture, particularly the composition and readership of romance. Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England identifies a series of new topoi in Middle English that responded to the gentry's economic interests. But beyond social history and literary criticism, it also speaks to manuscript studies, showing that most of the codices of the "gentry romances" were produced by those in the immediate employ of the gentry. By bringing together literary criticism and manuscript studies, this book speaks to two scholarly communities often insulated from one another: it invites manuscript scholars to pay closer attention to the cultural resonances of the texts within medieval codices; simultaneously, it encourages literary scholars to be more attentive to the cultural resonances of surviving medieval codices.

Author : James F. Burke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804729360

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Desire Against the Law by James F. Burke Pdf

The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. Drawing on the contrast between Bakhtin's concepts of the carnivalesque and the domain of the law, this book examines such opposites in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature.

Author : Jane Beal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9781793646767

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Becoming the Pearl-poet by Jane Beal Pdf

"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 : William Vantuono
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021958512

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William Vantuono Pdf

By combining fantasy and realism, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight praises court life with an undercurrent of satire against a declining chivalric ideal. This edition focuses on the Middle English text, with a Modern English Verse translation on facing pages and extensive notes at the bottom of the pages. It discusses the manuscript, the anonymous poet and his other poems, and the structure of the poem and its audience, themes and characterization.

Author : Arthur C. Cawley,Dr. J.J. Anderson
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021010272

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Arthur C. Cawley,Dr. J.J. Anderson Pdf

From the north-west midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dates from the second half of the 14th century. Gawain, a knight in Arthur's court, takes up the challenge of the Green Knight, and cuts off his head. The Knight informs Gawain he will have his revenge. Journeying to the Knight's abode to receive his lot Gawain takes thehospitality of a Lord, and endures the advances of his wife. The Lord is the Green Knight and, when the time comes, merely nicks Gawain's neck for his infidelity and dishonour. Is Gawain a failure, or a hero?

Author : Laura L. Howes
Publisher : Tenn Studies Literature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073889969

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Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative by Laura L. Howes Pdf

This collection contains essays from thirteen authors, on topics ranging from an Old English transfiguration homily, to Galbert of Bruges, Marie de France's lais, Chaucer's gardens, Boccaccio's Decameron, and others. In each of these chapters, analyses of space map a variety of ways medieval narratives encoded meaning. In some, lost historical associations are uncovered. In others, a new way of theorizing space-even seeing bodies and minds as spaces to be imagined or marked-leads to interpretations that add significantly to our understanding of medieval narrative art. In still others, broadly political and ideological concerns find expression in the spatial world.

Author : Bowker Editorial Staff,R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 2776 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0835238008

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Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print 1997 by Bowker Editorial Staff,R R Bowker Publishing Pdf

Author : Carl Lindahl,John McNamara,John Lindow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UOM:39015042602170

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Medieval Folklore by Carl Lindahl,John McNamara,John Lindow Pdf

Articles describe medieval myths and legends; customs and activities; religious beliefs of pagans, Christians, and Muslims; oral and written works; holidays; and traditional music and art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373971

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

A world list of books in the English language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079882372

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victoria Sweet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UCAL:X82387

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Body as Plant, Doctor as Gardener Premodern Medicine in Hildegard of Bingen's Causes and Cures by Victoria Sweet Pdf

Author : Linda Raedisch
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738733340

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The Old Magic of Christmas by Linda Raedisch Pdf

Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas you'll find a Christmas bestiary and a White Witch's herbal, as well as tips for delving more deeply into your relationship with the unseen. Bring the festivities into your home with cookie recipes and ornament making while brushing elbows with veiled spirits and discovering the true perils of elves. Rife with the more frightful characters from folklore and the season's most petulant ghosts, this book takes you on a spooky sleigh ride from the silvered firs of a winter forest to the mirrored halls of the Snow Queen.