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Suggested Books
The following is a sample from our catalog.
Critical Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Call Number: 821 H832cISBN: 9780268982379Publication Date:Critical studies and interpretation.
- Geoffrey Chaucer by Call Number: 821.1 C393Yp2ISBN: 0805769080Publication Date:
Examines Chaucer’s literary style, describes and interprets the theories of literature, and discusses the influence of Latin, French and Italian literature throughout his career.
Suggested eBooks
The Art of the Gawain-Poet by ISBN: 9780567358028Publication Date:Starting from the assumption that “Pearl,” “Purity,” “Patience,” and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight“ are by one poet, W. A. Davenport seeks to define the nature of his art. He makes a close analysis of each poem, considering the four not so much in their historical context as for their immediate poetic effect.
Idleness Working by ISBN: 9780813216522Publication Date:Inspired by the critical theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Idleness Working is a groundbreaking study of key works in the Western literature of love from Classical Rome to the late Middle Ages.
Julian of Norwich by ISBN: 9780773429871Publication Date:The work is the most comprehensive, current record of research and scholarship concerned with explicating Julian of Norwich’s Showings. This bibliography includes a handbook of information related to mystics contemporary to Julian, as well as information related to the life of the religious of Julian’s era.
Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader by ISBN: 9781501708169Publication Date:In Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader, Rebecca Krug shows how and why Kempe wrote her Book, arguing that in her engagement with written culture she discovered a desire to experience spiritual comfort and to interact with fellow believers who also sought to live lives of intense emotional engagement.
Middle English Prose Style by ISBN: 9783111391458Publication Date:Tracing the development and continuity of English prose is important to the field of linguistic and literary history. … The present study is an attempt to contribute to further knowledge of that style by examining intensively two late Middle English devotional works: The Book of Margery Kempe and the Revelations of Divine Love by Dame Julian of Norwich.
Shakespeare by ISBN: 9780748630165Publication Date:This book helps the reader make sense of the most commonly studied writer in the world. It starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare’s writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London.
Shakespeare and Spenser by ISBN: 9781400878949Publication Date:In eight closely interwoven essays, the author explores the techniques and themes which themes masters had in common.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by ISBN: 9781935978107Publication Date:This new verse translation of the most popular and enduring fourteenth-century romance to survive to the present offers students an accessible way of approaching the literature of medieval England without losing the flavor of the original writing.
