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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Derek Brewer; Jonathan Gibson |
| ISBN: | 085991433X 9780859914338 |
| OCLC Number: | 35192252 |
| Description: | 442 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Theories of authorship / Malcolm Andrew -- Poetic identity / A.C. Spearing -- Gender and sexual transgression / Jane Gilbert -- The historical background / Michael J. Bennett -- Christianity for courtly subjects : reflections on the Gawain-poet / David Aers -- Landscape and geography / Ralph Elliott -- Castles / Michael Thompson -- Feasts / Derek Brewer -- Jewels in Pearl / Felicity Riddy -- The hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Anne Rooney -- Armour I / Michael Lacy -- Armour II : the arming topos as literature ; The colour green ; Some names / Derek Brewer -- The manuscript : British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x / A.S.G. Edwards -- Meter, stanza, vocabulary, dialect / H.N. Duggan -- Sources I : the sources of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Elisabeth Brewer -- Sources II : scriptural and devotional sources / Richard Newhauser -- The supernatural / Helen Cooper -- The Gawain-poet as a vernacular theologian / Nicholas Watson -- Allegory and symbolism / Priscilla Martin -- Narrative form and insight / Nick Davis -- Courtesy and chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : the order of shame and the invention of embarrassment / Derek Pearsall -- Sir Gawain : some later versions. The Grene Knight / Gillian Rogers -- Sir Gawain at the fin de siècle : novel and opera / Barry Windeatt -- Sir Gawain in films / David J. Williams. |
| Series Title: | Arthurian studies, 38 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson. |
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