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Sarah Stanbury
Seeing the Gawain-Poet [PDF ebook]
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Offers the full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Pearl,
Purity, and
Patience.

€87.99

About the author

Sarah Stanbury is Monsignor Murray Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England and coeditor, with Linda Lomperis, of Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 178 ● ISBN 9781512808285 ● File size 8.9 MB ● Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. ● City Philadelphia ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7820167 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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