9780582225756 - An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library) von Putter, Ad (3 Ergebnisse)

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. 3 Kg.

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. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. 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.