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Seeing the Gawain-poet : description and the act of perception, Sarah Stanbury
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- Summary
- Seeing the Gawain-Poet offers the first full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience. Generally accepted as being the work of a single author, alternately known as the Pearl- or the Gawain-poet, these fourteenth-century poems are bound together in British Museum Cotton Nero A.x. Readers of the poems rarely fail to admire their descriptive art - the minutely detailed and precisely visualized depictions of costume, landscape, interior furnishings, or storms at sea. It is Sarah Stanbury's achievement to place the poet's use of visual detail in an illuminating, new interpretive context. Sarah Stanbury examines the Gawain-poet's extraordinary powers of physical description and the ways in which the poems focus on the moment and act of vision. With equal adeptness, she grounds her discussion in medieval aesthetics, contemporary narrative theory, and iconographic study to explore the ways in which the poet consistently uses description as a narrative tool for dramatizing the limitations of human experience and knowledge. In a speculative conclusion, Stanbury explores some of the anxieties about sight and knowledge as reflected in English mysticism and contemporary intellectual life and as represented in poetry. Through a comparison of the Gawain-poet's visualized descriptive art with that of his contemporaries, particularly Chaucer, her study concludes that the Gawain-poet was unique among English poets of this time in consistently using a focused visual poetics as a mode of description and as a mode of thought
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 155 pages
- Contents
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Gazing Toward Jerusalem: Space and Perception in Pearl. Seeing in the Garden. The Vision of the New Jerusalem. The Reader and the Interpretive Gaze
- 3. Reading Signs: Purity's Eyewitness in History. Anagogical Images: Imitation in the Age of Grace. The Parabolic Scenes: History and Vision
- 4. Patience: The Dialectics of Inside/Outside. The Ship to Tarshish: A View from the Decks. The Whale: Blind Sight and Labyrinthine Interior. The Woodbine: Perception as Comic Drama
- 5. The Framing of the Gaze in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Interpretive Gaze: The Position of the Spectator. The Interpreter's Gaze: The Framework of Judgment
- 6. Conclusion. The Focused Gaze in Ricardian Narrative. The Poetics of Sight in English Mysticism. Ocular Skepticism and Medieval Narrative
- Isbn
- 9780812231090
- Label
- Seeing the Gawain-poet : description and the act of perception
- Title
- Seeing the Gawain-poet
- Title remainder
- description and the act of perception
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah Stanbury
- Subject
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- Christian poetry, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Description (Rhetoric)
- Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500
- English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- History
- Knights and knighthood in literature
- Manuscripts, English (Middle) -- England | West Midlands
- Patience (Middle English poem)
- Pearl (Middle English poem)
- Purity (Middle English poem)
- Rhetoric, Medieval
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Visual perception in literature
- Arthurian romances -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Seeing the Gawain-Poet offers the first full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience. Generally accepted as being the work of a single author, alternately known as the Pearl- or the Gawain-poet, these fourteenth-century poems are bound together in British Museum Cotton Nero A.x. Readers of the poems rarely fail to admire their descriptive art - the minutely detailed and precisely visualized depictions of costume, landscape, interior furnishings, or storms at sea. It is Sarah Stanbury's achievement to place the poet's use of visual detail in an illuminating, new interpretive context. Sarah Stanbury examines the Gawain-poet's extraordinary powers of physical description and the ways in which the poems focus on the moment and act of vision. With equal adeptness, she grounds her discussion in medieval aesthetics, contemporary narrative theory, and iconographic study to explore the ways in which the poet consistently uses description as a narrative tool for dramatizing the limitations of human experience and knowledge. In a speculative conclusion, Stanbury explores some of the anxieties about sight and knowledge as reflected in English mysticism and contemporary intellectual life and as represented in poetry. Through a comparison of the Gawain-poet's visualized descriptive art with that of his contemporaries, particularly Chaucer, her study concludes that the Gawain-poet was unique among English poets of this time in consistently using a focused visual poetics as a mode of description and as a mode of thought
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stanbury, Sarah
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Middle Ages series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English poetry
- Christian poetry, English (Middle)
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)
- Description (Rhetoric)
- Arthurian romances
- Knights and knighthood in literature
- Visual perception in literature
- Rhetoric, Medieval
- Description (Rhetoric)
- Label
- Seeing the Gawain-poet : description and the act of perception, Sarah Stanbury
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-149) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gazing Toward Jerusalem: Space and Perception in Pearl. Seeing in the Garden. The Vision of the New Jerusalem. The Reader and the Interpretive Gaze -- 3. Reading Signs: Purity's Eyewitness in History. Anagogical Images: Imitation in the Age of Grace. The Parabolic Scenes: History and Vision -- 4. Patience: The Dialectics of Inside/Outside. The Ship to Tarshish: A View from the Decks. The Whale: Blind Sight and Labyrinthine Interior. The Woodbine: Perception as Comic Drama -- 5. The Framing of the Gaze in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Interpretive Gaze: The Position of the Spectator. The Interpreter's Gaze: The Framework of Judgment -- 6. Conclusion. The Focused Gaze in Ricardian Narrative. The Poetics of Sight in English Mysticism. Ocular Skepticism and Medieval Narrative
- Control code
- 24174058
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 155 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812231090
- Lccn
- 91027295
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1431920
- Label
- Seeing the Gawain-poet : description and the act of perception, Sarah Stanbury
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-149) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gazing Toward Jerusalem: Space and Perception in Pearl. Seeing in the Garden. The Vision of the New Jerusalem. The Reader and the Interpretive Gaze -- 3. Reading Signs: Purity's Eyewitness in History. Anagogical Images: Imitation in the Age of Grace. The Parabolic Scenes: History and Vision -- 4. Patience: The Dialectics of Inside/Outside. The Ship to Tarshish: A View from the Decks. The Whale: Blind Sight and Labyrinthine Interior. The Woodbine: Perception as Comic Drama -- 5. The Framing of the Gaze in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Interpretive Gaze: The Position of the Spectator. The Interpreter's Gaze: The Framework of Judgment -- 6. Conclusion. The Focused Gaze in Ricardian Narrative. The Poetics of Sight in English Mysticism. Ocular Skepticism and Medieval Narrative
- Control code
- 24174058
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 155 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812231090
- Lccn
- 91027295
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1431920
Subject
- Christian poetry, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Description (Rhetoric)
- Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500
- English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- History
- Knights and knighthood in literature
- Manuscripts, English (Middle) -- England | West Midlands
- Patience (Middle English poem)
- Pearl (Middle English poem)
- Purity (Middle English poem)
- Rhetoric, Medieval
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Visual perception in literature
- Arthurian romances -- History and criticism
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