Seeing the Gawain-Poet : : Description and the Act of Perception / / Sarah Stanbury.

Offers the full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1992
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (178 p.) :; 4 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Gazing Toward Jerusalem: Space and Perception in Pearl
  • 3. Reading Signs: Purity's Eyewitness in History
  • 4. Patience: The Dialectics of Inside/Outside
  • 5. The Framing of the Gaze in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Backmatter