A companion to the Gawain-poet
Editorial D.S. BREWER
Mainland Spain
- Publisher D.S. BREWER
- ISBN13 9780859915298
- ISBN10 0859915298
- Type BOOK
- Pages 442
- Published 1999
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
Medieval Literature EuropeanA companion to the Gawain-poet
Editorial D.S. BREWER
Mainland Spain
Book details
The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and I>Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics include theories of authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with individual sections on particularly important features within them; gender roles in the poems; the manuscript itself; the metre, vocabulary and dialect of the poems; and their sources. A section devoted to Sir Gawain investigates the ideas of courtesy and chivalry found within it, and explores some of its later adaptations from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. A full bibliography completes the volume.DEREK BREWER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge; JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of Exeter and Durham.