Ad Putter

An Introduction to The Gawain-Poet

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780582225749
• ISBN-10: 0582225744
• Artikelnr.: 24277534

Autorenporträt

Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Note on References and Abbreviations Acknowledgements 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 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Introduction
Romance and Realism
Plot-telling and the Manipulation of Memory
Conclusion 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 Revelation to Trust
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 5. Cleanness Introduction
Uncleanness and the Confusion of Kinds
Imitating God
The Beauty of Destruction
Cleaness and Knowing One's Place
Embodying Culture Bibliography