Language and imagination in the Gawain poems by J Anderson
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.-
The Parlement of Foulys
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The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
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Medieval literary voices
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Hybrid healing
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Difficult pasts
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Play time
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Transfiguring medievalism
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Medieval afterlives
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The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
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Between liturgy and magic
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Walking in the Middle Ages
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Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
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From Iceland to the Americas
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The politics of Middle English parables
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Translating hell
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Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France
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Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
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Annotated Chaucer Bibliography
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Objects of Affection
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Harley Manuscript Geographies
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The The Knight and the Barrel (Le Chevalier Au Barisel)
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The Scottish Legendary
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Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
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Roadworks
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A Knight's Legacy
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Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
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Transporting Chaucer
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Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain
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A Landscape of Words
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Reading Robin Hood
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Greenery
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Rethinking the South English Legendaries
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Aspects of Knowledge
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Practising Shame
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The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture
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Fantastic histories
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Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism
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Visions and Ruins
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Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
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Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England
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Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance
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Objects of belief
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Saga Emotions
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Strange matter
J. J. Anderson is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Manchester
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719071027 |
| ISBN 10 | 071907102X |
| Title | Language and imagination in the Gawain poems |
| Author | J Anderson |
| Series | Manchester Medieval Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2005-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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