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Seeing the Gawain-poet : description and the act of perception / Sarah Stanbury.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanbury, Sarah, Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- The Middle Ages Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Patience (Middle English poem).
- Purity (Middle English poem).
- Pearl (Middle English poem).
- Visual perception in literature.
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Description (Rhetoric).
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- Christian poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
- Christian poetry, English (Middle).
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)--England--West Midlands.
- Manuscripts, English (Middle).
- Description (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
- Arthurian romances--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- Knights and knighthood in literature.
- English poetry--History and criticism--Middle English, 1100-1500--West Midlands--England.
- Christian poetry, English (Middle)--History and criticism--To 1500.
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)--History.
- Description (Rhetoric)--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 155 p. )
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offers the full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Gazing Toward Jerusalem: Space and Perception in Pearl
- 3. Reading Signs: Purity’s Eyewitness in History
- 4. Patience: The Dialectics of Inside/Outside
- 5. The Framing of the Gaze in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 6. Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512808285
- 1512808288
- 9780585172897
- 0585172897
- OCLC:
- 979760717
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