A companion to the Gawain-poet
edited by Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; D.S. Brewer, 1997.
ISBN: 0859915298
DDC: 821.1
LCC: PR1972
Edition: (pbk.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-427) and indexes.
Introduction / Derek Brewer -- 1. Theories of Authorship / Malcolm
Andrew -- 2. Poetic Identity / A. C. Spearing -- 3. Gender and Sexual
Transgression / Jane Gilbert -- 4. The Historical Background /
Michael J. Bennett -- 5. Christianity for Courtly Subjects:
Reflections on the Gawain-Poet / David Aers -- 6. The Materials of
Culture. Landscape and Geography / Ralph Elliott. Castles / Michael
Thompson. Feasts / Derek Brewer. Jewels in Pearl / Felicity Riddy.
The Hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Anne Rooney. Armour I
/ Michael Lacy. Armour II: The Arming Topos as Literature / Derek
Brewer. The Colour Green / Derek Brewer. Some Names / Derek Brewer --
7. The Manuscript: British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x / A. S. G.
Edwards -- 8. Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect / H. N. Duggan -- 9.
Sources I: The Sources of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Elisabeth
Brewer -- 10. Sources II: Scriptural and Devotional Sources / Richard
Newhauser -- 11. The Supernatural / Helen Cooper.
12. The Gawain-Poet as a Vernacular Theologian / Nicholas Watson --
13. Allegory and Symbolism / Priscilla Martin -- 14. Narrative Form
and Insight / Nick Davis -- 15. Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight: The Order of Shame and the Invention of
Embarrassment / Derek Pearsall -- 16. Sir Gawain: Some Later
Versions. The Grene Knight / Gillian Rogers. Sir Gawain at the fin de
siecle: Novel and Opera / Barry Windeatt. Sir Gawain in Films / David
J. Williams.
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