ISBN: 9780582225756 - an introduction to the gawain-poet (5 risultati)

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. 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. Subjects; Gawain (Legendary character). Gawain-poet. Gawain-poet Criticism and interpretation. Gawain (Legendary character) ; Romances History and criticism. GawainBritish Library. Manuscript. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. 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. Subjects; Gawain (Legendary character). Gawain-poet. Gawain-poet Criticism and interpretation. Gawain (Legendary character) ; Romances History and criticism. GawainBritish Library. Manuscript. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: x, 256. First edition. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Black boards with silver lettering to spine.ISBN: 0582225752 Very good plus boards with two small nicks to tail edge and creased top spine end. Very good dust jacket with creases and scratch marks to front and rear.

Hard. Condizione: Very Good Minus. Very Good Minus. Light wear, light crease to rear of jacket, some light spotting to closed edges, owner sticker to front pastedown, else clean and tight. Size: 8vo.