Seeing the Gawain-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception

by Sarah Stanbury

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812231090
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1992
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1620L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Stanbury is Monsignor Murray Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England and coeditor, with Linda Lomperis, of Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Editorial Reviews

Examines the descriptions of costumes, landscapes, interiors, storms, and other scenes, in the four poems by the 14th-century English Gawain (or Pearl) poet. Considers medieval aesthetics and iconography, and modern literary theories. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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