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  • The Works of the Gawain Poet

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience

    by Myra Stokes, Ad Putter ...
    A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars.This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. In one of the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur's court, must ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

    Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature

    Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson

    by Jennifer Jahner, Ingrid Nelson, C. David Benson, Pamela J. Benson, Julia Boffey, Kate Crassons, A. S. G. Edwards, Roberta Krueger, Robert Pasnau0, Ad Putter1, James Simpson2, Stephanie Trigg3, Amy N. Vines4 ...
    Over the course of her career, Elizabeth Robertson has pursued innovative scholarship that investigates the overlapping domains of medieval philosophy, literature, and gender studies. This collection of essays, dedicated to her work, examines gender as a construct of language, a mode of embodiment, and a critical framework for thinking about the past. Its eleven contributors approach the figure of ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature

    Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald

    by Dr. Michael J. Huxtable, Edward Donald Kennedy, Andrew Lynch, Barry A Windeatt, Ad Putter, Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge, Venetia Bridges, Dr. Aisling Byrne, Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Corinne Saunders, Megan G. Leitch, Jordi Sanchez-Marti, A C Spearing ...
    The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two areas that her scholarship has done so much to illuminate: medieval romance, and Arthurian literature. Several chapters examine individual romances, including Emar**é, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman de Silence. Others focus on wider concerns in romances and related works in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic

    The Form, Poetics, and Style of <I>Fortunes Stabilnes</I>

    by R.D. Perry, John A. Burrow, Philip Knox, Richard Ingham, Simon Horobin, Ad Putter, Andrea Denny-Brown, B. S. W. Barootes, Elizaveta Strakhov0, Eric Weiskott1, Jenni Nuttall2, Jeremy J. Smith3 ...
    The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes, the English poetry Charles d'Orléans wrote in the course of his twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which ithas most often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French traditions, reveals a more conceptually ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Introduction to The Gawain-Poet

    by Ad Putter ...
    Series series Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
    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 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance

    Edited by Ad Putter, Jane Gilbert ...
    Series series Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
    The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Carolyn Muessig, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and music. It considers the influence of such notions in the secular literature of some of the greatest writers of the period including Chrétien de Troyes and Chaucer. The coherence and beauty of these notions make heaven one of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Timely Voices

    Romance Writing in English Literature

    Edited by Goran Stanivukovic ...
    From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis - an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones - English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing.Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by H. D. F. Kitto ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles's reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nick Groom ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home d�cor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Complete Aeschylus

    Volume I: The Oresteia

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD