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A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R996
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A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Paperback, New Ed): Derek Brewer, Jonathan Gibson

A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Paperback, New Ed)

Derek Brewer, Jonathan Gibson; Contributions by A. C. Spearing, A.S.G. Edwards, Anne Rooney, Barry A. Windeatt, David Aers, David J Williams, David Williams, Derek Pearsall

Series: Arthurian Studies

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`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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Imprint: D.S. Brewer
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Arthurian Studies
Release date: May 1999
First published: 1999
Editors: Derek Brewer • Jonathan Gibson
Contributors: A. C. Spearing (Contributor) • A.S.G. Edwards • Anne Rooney • Barry A. Windeatt • David Aers (Royalty Account) • David J Williams • David Williams (Person) • Derek Pearsall
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 452
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-85991-529-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN: 0-85991-529-8
Barcode: 9780859915298

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