Pearl is a moving elegy written in the late fourteenth century, in
which a grief-stricken narrator struggles to come to terms with the
death of his baby daughter. He meets her, now transformed into a
beautiful young lady, in a dream, where she attempts to bring him
to understand the place of death in the divine plan, and where he
is granted a sight of the heavenly Jerusalem. Pearl is celebrated
as a jewel among medieval poems, although it is the most
challenging of the four works by the anonymous author of Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight. This new critical edition is designed to
offer the maximum support for the reader of the poem. The text is
accompanied by a close translation, and each of the twenty sections
of the poem is provided with an introductory headnote as well as a
running commentary. A general introduction supplies the necessary
background information, on manuscript and authorship, form and
structure, sources and influences, style, vocabulary and
verse-form. The bibliography selects the most significant of the
extensive critical studies. Written for both the specialist and the
general reader, this book is an essential guide to this profound
and complex poem. Designed as a replacement for E. V. Gordon’s
standard edition of 1953 this is the only edition of Pearl to be
accompanied by a literal translation and a full literary commentary
and is the fruit of the author's 40 years of teaching medieval
literature.
General
| Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Thorlac Turville-Petre
(Professor Emeritus)
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80207-894-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-80207-894-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781802078947 |
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