Seeing the Gawain-Poet : Description and the Act of Perception /

Offers the full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stanbury, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:The Middle Ages Series
Subjects:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Patience (Middle English poem)
Purity (Middle English poem)
Pearl (Middle English poem)
Gawain and the Grene Knight
To 1500
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Christian poetry, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
Manuscripts, English (Middle) > England > West Midlands.
Description (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Arthurian romances > History and criticism.
Knights and knighthood in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Poésie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Poésie chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais) > Angleterre > West Midlands.
Cycle d'Arthur > Histoire et critique.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Rhétorique médiévale.
ART > History > Medieval.
Arthurian romances
Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Description (Rhetoric)
English poetry > Middle English
Knights and knighthood in literature
Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Rhetoric, Medieval
Visual perception in literature
England > West Midlands
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Gazing Toward Jerusalem: Space and Perception in Pearl
  • 3. Reading Signs: Purity's Eyewitness in History
  • 4. Patience: The Dialectics of Inside/Outside
  • 5. The Framing of the Gaze in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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