A Companion to the Gawain-Poet

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-85991-433-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 456 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Arthurian Studies

Essays intended as a companion to a reading of the works of the Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience

The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics includetheories 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. Afull bibliography completes the volume.

DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge; JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of Exeter and Durham.

Contributors: DEREK BREWER, MALCOLM ANDREW, A.C. SPEARING, JANE GILBERT, MICHAEL J. BENNETT, DAVID AERS, RALPH ELLIOTT, MICHAEL THOMPSON, FELICITY RIDDY, ANNE ROONEY, MICHAEL LACY, A.S.G. EDWARDS, H.N. DUGGAN, ELISABETH BREWER, RICHARD NEWHAUSER, HELEN COOPER, NICHOLAS WATSON, PRISCILLA MARTIN, NICK DAVIS, DEREK PEARSALL, GILLIAN ROGERS, BARRY WINDEATT, DAVID J. WILLIAMS

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brewer, Derek

Gibson, Jonathan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Spearing, A C

Edwards, A. S. G.

Rooney, Anne

Windeatt, Barry A

Aers, David

Williams, David J.

Williams, David

Pearsall, Derek

Brewer, Derek S

Brewer, Elisabeth

Riddy, Felicity

Rogers, Gillian E

Cooper, Helen

Duggan, Hoyt N

Gilbert, Jane

Brosnan, Linda

Thompson, M W

Andrew, Malcolm

Lacy, Michael

Thompson, Michael

Watson, Nicholas

Davis, Nick

Martin, Priscilla

Elliott, Ralph W V

Newhauser, Richard G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- A S G Edwards
`Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect'. - Hoyt N Duggan
`Text and Society: The Historical Background'. -
`Text and Society. Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-Poet'. -
`Everyday Life: Landscape and Geography'. - Ralph W V Elliott
`Everyday Life: Feasts'. - Derek S Brewer
`Everyday Life. Jewels: Luxury, Piety and Preciousness in Pearl'. - Linda Brosnan
`Everyday Life: The Hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. - Anne Rooney
`Everyday Life: Castles'. - M W Thompson
`Everyday Life: Armour in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. -
`Literary Sources: Romances and Other Secular Sources (Sir Gawain)'. - Elisabeth Brewer
`Literary Sources: Scriptural and Devotional Sources of the Gawain-Poet (Other poems)'. - Richard G. Newhauser
`Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Order of Shame and the Invention of Embarrassment'. -
`Gender and Sexual Transgression in the Gawain-Poet'. - Jane Gilbert ***
`The Gawain-Poet as a Vernacular Theologian'. - Nicholas Watson
`The Supernatural'. - Helen Cooper
`Narrative Structures'. - Nick Davis
`Allegory and Symbolism'. - Priscilla Martin
`Poetic Identity in the Gawain-Poet'. - A C Spearing ***
`Sir Gawain: Some Later Versions. The Grene Knight'. -
`Sir Gawain: Some Later Versions. Sir Gawain at the fin de siècle: Novel and Opera'. - Barry A Windeatt
`Sir Gawain: Some Later Versions. Sir Gawain in Films'. - David Williams - Malcolm Andrew - Michael Lacy
The Supernatural - Helen Cooper

Über Autor(innen)

Edwards, A. S. G.
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Watson, Nicholas
NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular.

Pearsall, Derek
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.

Gilbert, Jane
JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK.