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The late 14th century produced a crop of brilliant writers: Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Their achievement was rivalled only by a series of four works generally agreed to have been written by a single northern author, known as the Gawain-Poet. This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-poet's four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness. The four poems are made accessible to the student by setting them in their relevant historical and cultural context and by developing some lines of critical argument. All studies are based on the author's own research and translations.
"This is an excellent book, which will serve as a sound and lively introduction for students, but also makes an impressive and substantial contribution to scholarly study of the Gawain-poet." English Studies "Ad Putter's Introduction is aimed at undergraduates and provides clearly written and largely independent critical introductions to the four poems." TLS
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 256 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. Contents; Ch. 1. The Gawain-poet in context. 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 from the north west Midlands -- Ch. 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Romance and realism. Plot-telling and the manipulation of memory. Conclusion -- Ch. 3. Patience. 'Suffraunce' in the Prologue. The Gawain-poet as a reader of the Bible. Dramatic irony in the story of Jonah. God and man. From revelation to trust -- Ch. 4. Pearl. Introduction: Pearl and its problems. Making heaven strange: the description of heaven. Reason and revelation: the debate about heaven. The unkindness of heaven. Patience and protest in the epilogue -- Ch. 5. Cleanness. Uncleanness and the confusion of kinds. Imitating God. The beauty of destruction. Cleanness and knowing one's place. Embodying culture. Subjects; Gawain (Legendary character). Gawain-poet ht, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Patience (Middle English poem). Purity (Middle English poem). Pearl (Middle English poem). Gawain and the Grene Knight. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations. N° de réf. du vendeur 426693
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Vendeur : MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlande
1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. Contents; Ch. 1. The Gawain-poet in context. 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 from the north west Midlands -- Ch. 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Romance and realism. Plot-telling and the manipulation of memory. Conclusion -- Ch. 3. Patience. 'Suffraunce' in the Prologue. The Gawain-poet as a reader of the Bible. Dramatic irony in the story of Jonah. God and man. From revelation to trust -- Ch. 4. Pearl. Introduction: Pearl and its problems. Making heaven strange: the description of heaven. Reason and revelation: the debate about heaven. The unkindness of heaven. Patience and protest in the epilogue -- Ch. 5. Cleanness. Uncleanness and the confusion of kinds. Imitating God. The beauty of destruction. Cleanness and knowing one's place. Embodying culture. Subjects; Gawain (Legendary character). Gawain-poet. Gawain-poet Criticism and interpretation. Gawain (Legendary character) ; Romances History and criticism. GawainBritish Library. Manuscript. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations. N° de réf. du vendeur 425839
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 256 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. Contents; Ch. 1. The Gawain-poet in context. 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 from the north west Midlands -- Ch. 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Romance and realism. Plot-telling and the manipulation of memory. Conclusion -- Ch. 3. Patience. 'Suffraunce' in the Prologue. The Gawain-poet as a reader of the Bible. Dramatic irony in the story of Jonah. God and man. From revelation to trust -- Ch. 4. Pearl. Introduction: Pearl and its problems. Making heaven strange: the description of heaven. Reason and revelation: the debate about heaven. The unkindness of heaven. Patience and protest in the epilogue -- Ch. 5. Cleanness. Uncleanness and the confusion of kinds. Imitating God. The beauty of destruction. Cleanness and knowing one's place. Embodying culture. Subjects; Gawain (Legendary character). Gawain-poet ht, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Patience (Middle English poem). Purity (Middle English poem). Pearl (Middle English poem). Gawain and the Grene Knight. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations. N° de réf. du vendeur 426693
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Vendeur : MW Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. Contents; Ch. 1. The Gawain-poet in context. 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 from the north west Midlands -- Ch. 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Romance and realism. Plot-telling and the manipulation of memory. Conclusion -- Ch. 3. Patience. 'Suffraunce' in the Prologue. The Gawain-poet as a reader of the Bible. Dramatic irony in the story of Jonah. God and man. From revelation to trust -- Ch. 4. Pearl. Introduction: Pearl and its problems. Making heaven strange: the description of heaven. Reason and revelation: the debate about heaven. The unkindness of heaven. Patience and protest in the epilogue -- Ch. 5. Cleanness. Uncleanness and the confusion of kinds. Imitating God. The beauty of destruction. Cleanness and knowing one's place. Embodying culture. Subjects; Gawain (Legendary character). Gawain-poet. Gawain-poet Criticism and interpretation. Gawain (Legendary character) ; Romances History and criticism. GawainBritish Library. Manuscript. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations. N° de réf. du vendeur 425839
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8vo. Pp: x, 256. First edition. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Black boards with silver lettering to spine.ISBN: 0582225752 Very good plus boards with two small nicks to tail edge and creased top spine end. Very good dust jacket with creases and scratch marks to front and rear. N° de réf. du vendeur C70835
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