A Companion to the GawainPoet by Edited by Derek Brewer & Edited by Jonathan Gibson & Contributions by A C Spearing & Contributions by Professor A S G Edwards & Contributions by Anne Rooney & Contribu
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The essays collected here on the GawainPoet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Cleanness and Patience providing both information and original analysis. Topics includetheories 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. Afull bibliography completes the volume. The late DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English Literature University of Cambridge JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of Exeter and Durham. show more
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Author : Edited By Derek Brewer Edited By Jonathan Gibson Contributions By A C Spearing Contributions B
Weight : 780
Publisher : Boydell ampamp Brewer Ltd
Language : English
EAN : 9780859915298
ISBN10 : 0859915298
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20020725
Place of Publication : Cambridge United Kingdom
Pagination : 452
Dimensions : 156 X 234 X 27.94mm