The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition
Title | The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Ethan Campbell |
Publisher | Research in Medieval and Early |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2018-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781580443074 |
Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within depictions of flawed priest-like characters.
The Gawain-poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-century English Anticlericalism
Title | The Gawain-poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-century English Anticlericalism PDF eBook |
Author | Ethan Campbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781321295528 |
The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition
Title | The Gawain-Poet and the Fourteenth-Century English Anticlerical Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Ethan Campbell |
Publisher | Medieval Institute Publications |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2018-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1580443087 |
Ethan Campbell argues that a central feature of the Gawain-poet's Middle English works' moral rhetoric is anticlerical critique. Written in an era when clerical corruption was a key concern for polemicists such as Richard FitzRalph and John Wyclif, as well as satirical poets such as John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poems feature an explicit attack on hypocritical priests in the opening lines of Cleanness as well as more subtle critiques embedded within depictions of flawed priest-like characters.
An Introduction to The Gawain-Poet
Title | An Introduction to The Gawain-Poet PDF eBook |
Author | Ad Putter |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2014-09-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317893115 |
The late 14th century produced a crop of brilliant writers: Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Their achievement was rivalled only by a series of four works generally agreed to have been written by a single northern author, known as the Gawain-Poet. This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-poet's four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness. The four poems are made accessible to the student by setting them in their relevant historical and cultural context and by developing some lines of critical argument. All studies are based on the author's own research and translations.
An Introduction to the Gawain Poet
Title | An Introduction to the Gawain Poet PDF eBook |
Author | John M Bowers |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2021-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813072107 |
In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's lesser known but no less brilliant works. In addition to his succinct introductions and plot summaries, Bowers skillfully details the cultural, historical, political, and religious contexts for these works, synthesizing them with close reading of selected passages. Perhaps his most exciting contribution to the field is his choice to historicize the poet's life and works in the context of the royal culture of King Richard II, boldly contending that it was highly possible the Gawain Poet was a frequent visitor to Richard's court in London. The final chapter surveys the works influenced by, as well as the influences reflected in, the poet's work, from the Bible to The Lord of the Rings. The attention Bowers pays to the critical tradition that has developed around these texts over the past hundred years makes An Introduction to the Gawain Poet an ideal volume for both undergraduate students and scholars of the Gawain Poet. Bowers has marshaled his formidable skills to create a book impressive in its balanced combination of breadth and depth.
Seeing the Gawain-Poet
Title | Seeing the Gawain-Poet PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Stanbury |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1512808288 |
Offers the full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience.
A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Title | A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight PDF eBook |
Author | J A Burrow |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019-07-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0429594100 |
Originally published in 1965, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can stand beside Chaucer. The book examines the poem’s conventions and purposes in a critical analysis and provides a useful and insightful introduction to ‘Sir Gawain’. It will be of interest to students and academics studying the poem of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.