Introduction to the Gawain-Poet
Longman Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-0-582-22575-6 (ISBN)
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The Gawain-Poet is the name given to the northern poet who is generally accepted as the sole author of four 14th-century Gawain poems - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Patience", "Pearl" and "Cleannes". This text introduces the reader to the poems, setting the works in their relevant historical and cultural context and developing lines of critical argument.
Part 1 The Gawain-Poet in context: introduction; the Poet's reading; the Poet's way of reading; the Poet in the text - a humble cleric; the Poet in the text - a court-poet; dialect and metre - the Gawain-Poet's remoteness; a historical context for alliterative poetry. Part 2 "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight": introduction; romance and realism; plot-telling and the manipulation of memory; conclusion. Part 3 "Patience": introduction; "suffrance" in the prologue; the Gawain-Poet as a reader of the Bible; dramatic irony in the story of Jonah; God and man; from relevation to trust. Part 4 "Pearl": introduction; making heaven strange - the description of heaven; reason and revelation - the debate about heaven; the unkindness of heaven; patience and protest in the epilogue. Part 5 "Cleanness": introduction; uncleanness and the confusion of kinds; imitating God; the beauty of destruction; cleannes and knowing one's place; emobodying culture.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.10.1996 |
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Reihe/Serie | Longman Mediaeval & Renaissance Library |
Zusatzinfo | references, bibliography |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 473 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-582-22575-2 / 0582225752 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-582-22575-6 / 9780582225756 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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