Language and Imagination in the Gawain Poems

Informationen zum Autor J. J. Anderson was Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Manchester Klappentext This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of a famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike. Zusammenfassung This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of a famous group of fourteenth-century poems! 'Pearl! Cleanness! Patience! and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist! non-specialist and student readers alike. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionPearl: The last shall be firstCleanness: The wages of sinPatience: The lord giveth, the lord taketh awaySir Gawain and the Green Knight: The beautiful lieAbbreviations and Select BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: J. Anderson, J. J. Anderson, J.J. Anderson
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2005
• EAN: 9780719071027
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7102-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies