An introduction to the Gawain-poet /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Longman,
1996.
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| Series: | Longman medieval and Renaissance library
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Table of 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.