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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24174058 Title: Seeing the Gawain-poet : description and the act of perception Author: Sarah Stanbury Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1991. ISBN/ISSN: 0812231090 9780812231090 OCLC:24174058

  
  

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• English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Seeing the Gawain-poet : description and the act of perception

Author:	Sarah Stanbury
Publisher:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1991.
Series:	Middle Ages series.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Seeing the Gawain-Poet offers the first full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience. Generally accepted as being the work of a single author, alternately known as the Pearl- or the Gawain-poet, these fourteenth-century poems are bound together in British Museum Cotton Nero A.x. Readers of the poems rarely fail to admire their descriptive art - the minutely detailed and precisely. visualized depictions of costume, landscape, interior furnishings, or storms at sea. It is Sarah Stanbury's achievement to place the poet's use of visual detail in an illuminating, new interpretive context. Sarah Stanbury examines the Gawain-poet's extraordinary powers of physical description and the ways in which the poems focus on the moment and act of vision. With equal adeptness, she grounds her discussion in medieval aesthetics, contemporary narrative theory, and. iconographic study to explore the ways in which the poet consistently uses description as a narrative tool for dramatizing the limitations of human experience and knowledge. In a speculative conclusion, Stanbury explores some of the anxieties about sight and knowledge as reflected in English mysticism and contemporary intellectual life and as represented in poetry. Through a comparison of the Gawain-poet's visualized descriptive art with that of his contemporaries, particularly Chaucer, her study concludes that the Gawain-poet was unique among English poets of this time in consistently using a focused visual poetics as a mode of description and as a mode of thought.  Read more...
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