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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Putter, Ad. Introduction to the Gawain-poet. London ; New York : Longman, 1996 (OCoLC)605381631 |
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| Named Person: | Gawain-Dichter; Gauvain, (personnage fictif). |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ad Putter |
| ISBN: | 0582225752 9780582225756 0582225744 9780582225749 |
| OCLC Number: | 34244144 |
| Description: | x, 256 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. The Gawain-poet in context. The poet's reading. The poet's way of reading. The poet in the text: a humble cleric. The poet in the text: a court-poet. Dialect and metre: the Gawain-poet's 'remoteness'. A historical context for alliterative poetry from the north west Midlands -- Ch. 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Romance and realism. Plot-telling and the manipulation of memory. Conclusion -- Ch. 3. Patience. 'Suffraunce' in the Prologue. The Gawain-poet as a reader of the Bible. Dramatic irony in the story of Jonah. God and man. From revelation to trust -- Ch. 4. Pearl. Introduction: Pearl and its problems. Making heaven strange: the description of heaven. Reason and revelation: the debate about heaven. The unkindness of heaven. Patience and protest in the epilogue -- Ch. 5. Cleanness. Uncleanness and the confusion of kinds. Imitating God. The beauty of destruction. Cleanness and knowing one's place. Embodying culture. |
| Series Title: | Longman medieval and Renaissance library. |
| Responsibility: | Ad Putter. |
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