| A Companion to the Gawain-Poet Contributor(s): Brewer, Derek (Editor), Gibson, Jonathan (Editor), Spearing, A. C. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0859915298 ISBN-13: 9780859915298 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 821.1 |
| Series: Arthurian Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 452 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics include theories of authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with individual sections on particularly important features within them; gender roles in the poems; the manuscript itself; the metre, vocabulary and dialect of the poems; and their sources. A section devoted to Sir Gawain investigates the ideas of courtesy and chivalry found within it, and explores some of its later adaptations from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. A full bibliography completes the volume. DEREK BREWER wass Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge; JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of Exeter and Durham. |