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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 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.
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A Companion to the Gawain-poet Arthurian Studies, 0261-9814 ; 38
author
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Brewer, Derek
publisher
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin
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0859915298
print isbn13
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9780859915298
ebook isbn13
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9780585339306
language
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English
subject
Gawain and the Grene Knight, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism, Christian poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism, Manuscripts, English (Middle)--England--West Midlands, Arthurian romances--History and criticism, Kni
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PR1972.G353C66 1999eb
ddc
:
821/.1
subject
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Gawain and the Grene Knight, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism, Christian poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism, Manuscripts, English (Middle)--England--West Midlands, Arthurian romances--History and criticism, Kni
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A Companion to the Gawain-Poet
ARTHURIAN STUDIES XXXVIII
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ARTHURIAN STUDIES
ISSN 02619814
Previously published volumes in the series are listed at the back of this book
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A Companion to the Gawain-Poet
Edited by Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson
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Contributors 1997
All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner
First published 1997 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge Reprinted in hardback and paperback 1999
ISBN 0 85991 433 X (hardback) ISBN 0 85991 529 8 (paperback)
D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 146044126, USA
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 9632104
This publication is printed on acid-free paper
Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
Conventions and Abbreviations
x
Preface
xi
Introduction
Derek Brewer
1
1 Theories of Authorship
Malcolm Andrew
23
2 Poetic Identity
A. C. Spearing
35
3 Gender and Sexual Transgression
Jane Gilbert
53
4 The Historical Background
Michael J. Bennett
71
5 Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-Poet
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