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`Provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICE
List of contents
Introduction - Derek S Brewer
Theories of Authorship - Malcolm Andrew
Poetic Identity - A C Spearing ***
Gender and Sexual Transgression - Jane Gilbert
The Historical Background -
Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the
Gawain-Poet - David Aers
The Materials of Culture: Landscape and Geography - Ralph W V Elliott
The Materials of Culture: Castles - Michael Thompson
The Materials of Culture: Feasts - Derek S Brewer
The Materials of Culture: Jewels in
Pearl - Felicity Riddy
The Materials of Culture: The Hunts in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anne Rooney
The Materials of Culture: Armour I - Michael Lacy
The Materials of Culture: Armour II: The Arming Topos as Literature - Derek S Brewer
The Materials of Culture: The Colour Green - Derek S Brewer
The Materials of Culture: Some Names - Derek S Brewer
The Manuscript: British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x - A S G Edwards
Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect - Hoyt N Duggan
Sources I: The Sources of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Elisabeth Brewer
Sources II: Scriptural and Devotional Sources - Richard G. Newhauser
The Supernatural - Helen Cooper
The
Gawain-Poet as a Vernacular Theologian - Nicholas Watson
Allegory and Symbolism - Priscilla Martin
Narrative Form and Insight - Nick Davis
Courtesy and Chivalry in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Order of Shame and the Invention of Embarrassment - Derek Pearsall
SIR GAWAIN: SOME LATER VERSIONS
The Grene Knight - Gillian E Rogers
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 J. Williams
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About the author
Derek Brewer, Jonathan Gibson
