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Traditions and renewals : Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and beyond / Marie Borroff.
LIBRA PR313 .B67 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borroff, Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Book of the Duchesse.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Gawain and the Grene Knight.
- Pearl (Middle English poem).
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Gawain (Legendary character)--Romances--History and criticism.
- Gawain.
- Gawain (Legendary character).
- Romances.
- Judgment in literature.
- Clergy in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 275 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Literary critic, poet and philologist as well as medievalist, with a particular interest in the powers and effects of poetic language, Marie Borroff brings the full range of her expertise to bear on problems of central importance in the poetry of Chaucer and his nameless contemporary, the Gawain--or Pearl--poet. This collection of essays, much of it previously unpublished, represents a major contribution to the study of late Middle English literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300096127
- OCLC:
- 50773285
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