Title Seeing the Gawain-Poet : Description and the Act of Perception / Sarah Stanbury

Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] ©1991

Click on the following:
JSTOR eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource : 4 illustrations Series The Middle Ages Series 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 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 Notes In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) SUBJECT Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79068347 Patience (Middle English poem) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83208437 Purity (Middle English poem) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83208439 Pearl (Middle English poem) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50080977 Gawain and the Grene Knight fast Patience (Middle English poem) fast Pearl (Middle English poem) fast Purity (Middle English poem) fast Subject English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism Christian poetry, English (Middle) -- History and criticism Manuscripts, English (Middle) -- England -- West Midlands Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500 Arthurian romances -- History and criticism Knights and knighthood in literature. Visual perception in literature. Rhetoric, Medieval. ART -- History -- Medieval. Arthurian romances Christian poetry, English (Middle) Description (Rhetoric) English poetry -- Middle English Knights and knighthood in literature Manuscripts, English (Middle) Rhetoric, Medieval Visual perception in literature England -- West Midlands Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781512808285 1512808288

  Permalink