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Looking westward : poetry, landscape, and politics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Title
- Looking westward : poetry, landscape, and politics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Ordelle G. Hill.
- Author
- Hill, Ordelle G.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2009], ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR2065.G31 H55 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 203 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Subject
- Gawain (Legendary character) > History and criticism
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
- Welsh literature > 1100-1400 > History and criticism
- Landscapes in literature
- Arthurian romances > History and criticism
- Politics and literature > Wales > History > To 1500
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-195) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Welsh Poetry, Henry Grosmont's "Poem," and the Cotton Nero A.x. Manuscript -- 2. The Physical, Political, and Spiritual Aspects of Gawain's Journey -- 3. People and Places in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight -- 4. Legend, History, and the Beheading Game in Wales and the Borderlands -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Beheading Chart -- Appendix 2. The Families after 1330 -- Appendix 3. Other Beheadings in Wales and the Welsh March.
- ISBN
- 9780874130492 (alk. paper)
- 0874130492 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008037224
- 40016656268
- OCLC
- ocn244352661
- 244352661
- SCSB-5468424
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries