God and the Gawain-Poet : theology and genre in Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight /

Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knightare accomplished examples of four different literary genres and represent some of the finest poetry in Middle English. They are, by turns, fast and funny, powerfully dramatic, gentle and ironic, telling of painful bereavement and the terr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hatt, Cecilia A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2015.
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
Temas:
1100-1500
God in literature.
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Arthurian romances > History and criticism.
Christianity and literature.
Manuscripts, English (Middle) > England.
Dieu dans la littérature.
Poésie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Cycle d'Arthur > Histoire et critique.
Christianisme et littérature.
Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais) > Angleterre.
POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
Arthurian romances
Christianity and literature
English poetry > Middle English
God in literature
Manuscripts, English (Middle)
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Signposts on the trail of the Gawain-poet; 1: Pearl, the jeweller's dream; 2: The difficulty of Cleanness; 3: Patience and the Book of Jonah; 4: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: an alternative romance?; Appendix: some biographical and contextual speculations; Select bibliography; Index

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