A Companion to the Gawain-Poet - Paperback

The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics include theories of authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with individual sections on particularly important features within them; gender roles in the poems; the manuscript itself; the metre, vocabulary and dialect of the poems; and their sources. A section devoted to Sir Gawain investigates the ideas of courtesy and chivalry found within it, and explores some of its later adaptations from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. A full bibliography completes the volume. DEREK BREWER wass Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge; JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of Exeter and Durham.

• | Author: Derek S. Brewer
• | Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• | Publication Date: May 27, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 452 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0859915298
• | ISBN-13: 9780859915298