
Language and Imagination in the Gawain Poems
J. Anderson(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 24. March 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-7190-7102-7 (ISBN)
Description
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems.
This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike. -- .
This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-7102-7 (9780719071027)
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Person
J. J. Anderson is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Manchester -- .
Content
Preface
Introduction
Pearl: The last shall be first
Cleanness: The wages of sin
Patience: The lord giveth, the lord taketh away
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The beautiful lie
Abbreviations and Select Bibliography
Index -- .
Introduction
Pearl: The last shall be first
Cleanness: The wages of sin
Patience: The lord giveth, the lord taketh away
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The beautiful lie
Abbreviations and Select Bibliography
Index -- .