The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser

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Hovedforfatter: Morgan, Gerald, 1942-
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • The significance of the pentangle symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • The action of the hunting and bedroom scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • The meaning of kind wit, conscience and reason in the first vision of Piers Plowman
  • Langland's conception of favel, guile, liar and false in the first vision of Piers Plowman
  • The status and meaning of meed in the first vision of Piers Plowman
  • The universality of the portraits in the general prologue to the Canterbury tales
  • Rhetorical perspectives in the general prologue to the Ganterbury tales
  • A defence of Dorigen's complaint
  • The self-revealing tendencies of Chaucer's pardoner
  • Holiness as the first of Spenser's Aristotelian moral virtues
  • The idea of temperance in the second book of The faerie queene
  • The meaning of Spenser's chastity as the fairest of virtues.