The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Oxford ; New York :
Peter Lang,
c2010.
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Sommario:
- 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.