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A Companion to the Gawain-Poet

A Companion to the Gawain-Poet

Gibson, Jonathan
Spearing, A. C.
Brewer, Derek S.

Paperback

Series: Arthurian Studies, Book 38

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0859915298
ISBN13: 9780859915298
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: May 27 1999
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICE

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 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.

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