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From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and St Erkenwald, exploring key ideas that will inform a deeper understanding and appreciation of this medieval English writer's work.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Becoming the Pearl-Poet, Jane Beal
Part I: Perceptions
Chapter One: The Dreamer's Contemplative Experience of a Mappamundi in Pearl, Jane Beal
Chapter Two: Temperance and the Evolution of Concupiscible Vice in Cleanness, Corey Owen
Chapter Three: "Þay ar happen also þat con her hert stere": Virtue and Nautical Metaphor in Patience, M. W. Brumit
Chapter Four: The Failure of Perfection in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Mickey Sweeney
Chapter Five: St. Erkenwald, Michael D.C. Drout, Jonathan B. Gerkin, and Scott Kleinman
Part II: Connections
Chapter Six: Authorship: What Does the Pearl-Poet Tell Us About Himself?, Ethan Campbell
Chapter Seven: Ecology in the Pearl-Poet, Elizabeth Allen
Chapter Eight: Material Culture of the Pearl-Poet, Jonathan Quick
Chapter Nine: Sartorial Adornment in the Pearl Poems, Kimberly Jack
Chapter Ten: Switching Shields in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo
Chapter Eleven: The Pastoral Theology of the Pearl-Poet, Grace Hamman
Part III: Receptions
Chapter Twelve: The Illustrations in London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x (part 2), Joel Fredell
Chapter Thirteen: The Northwest Midlands and the Ricardian Court, David K. Coley
Chapter Fourteen: Religious Contexts for the Pearl-Poet, Nancy Ciccione
Chapter Fifteen: Translations and Paraphrases, Kenna L. Olsen
Chapter Sixteen: Audiences, Medieval and Modern, John M. Bowers
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Jane Beal is professor of English literature and the chair of English department at the University of La Verne in southern California.
Summary
From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and St Erkenwald, exploring key ideas that will inform a deeper understanding and appreciation of this medieval English writer’s work.
