{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-gawain-poet-paperback","title":"A Companion to the Gawain-Poet - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDerek Brewer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Gibson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eA. C. Spearing\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 includetheories 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. Afull bibliography completes the volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The late DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge; JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of Exeter and Durham.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 452\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703041814835,"sku":"9780859915298","price":92.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UHlUTDl4a3g2S29LR01peVdyRlRJQT09.webp?v=1763316009","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-companion-to-the-gawain-poet-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}