Becoming the Pearl-Poet

Perceptions, Connections, Receptions
Herausgeber: Beal, Jane

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Produktbeschreibung

From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and St Erkenwald, exploring key ideas that will inform a deeper understanding and appreciation of this medieval English writer’s work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781793646774
• ISBN-10: 1793646775
• Artikelnr.: 70242461

Autorenporträt

Jane Beal is professor of English literature and the chair of English department at the University of La Verne in southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Becoming the Pearl-Poet, Jane Beal
Part I: Perceptions
Chapter One: The Dreamer's Contemplative Experience of a Mappamundi in
Pearl, Jane Beal
Chapter Two: Temperance and the Evolution of Concupiscible Vice in
Cleanness, Corey Owen
Chapter Three: "Þay ar happen also þat con her hert stere": Virtue and
Nautical Metaphor in Patience, M. W. Brumit
Chapter Four: The Failure of Perfection in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
, Mickey Sweeney
Chapter Five: St. Erkenwald, Michael D.C. Drout, Jonathan B. Gerkin, and
Scott Kleinman
Part II: Connections
Chapter Six: Authorship: What Does the Pearl-Poet Tell Us About Himself?,
Ethan Campbell
Chapter Seven: Ecology in the Pearl-Poet, Elizabeth Allen
Chapter Eight: Material Culture of the Pearl-Poet, Jonathan Quick
Chapter Nine: Sartorial Adornment in the Pearl Poems, Kimberly Jack
Chapter Ten: Switching Shields in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Kristin
Bovaird-Abbo
Chapter Eleven: The Pastoral Theology of the Pearl-Poet, Grace