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• ISBN: 0786416483
• ISBN: 9780786416486
• Physical Description: viii, 188 pages ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2003]
• Copyright: ©2003

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Religious Context 7 -- Literacy and Reading 11 -- Medieval Poet 14 -- Thinking Medievally 17 -- On to the Literature 19 -- I. Beowulf -- On Digressions 21 -- Of Kings and Monsters 26 -- Trouble with Geats 30 -- Beowulf and the Question of Evil 32 -- II. Chretien de Troyes -- Epic and Romance 34 -- Erec and Enide and Yvain 39 -- Lancelot and Perceval 47 -- III. Lais of Marie de France -- Medieval Women Writers 53 -- Lais 55 -- IV. Romance of the Rose -- A Medieval "Best-Seller" 66 -- Focusing on Love 67 -- Guillaume's Dream 69 -- Jean Takes Over 78 -- V. Tale of Genji -- Leaving Europe 84 -- Reading Genji 89 -- VI. Jewish Literature -- Jews in Christian Europe 95 -- Jews in Moslem Spain 101 -- VII. Sagas -- Iceland and the Sagas 111 -- Egil and Laxdoela 117 -- Njal's Saga 121 -- VIII. Dante -- High Point of the Middle Ages 126 -- Hell 130 -- Purgatory 135 -- Paradise 139 -- IX. Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Fourteenth-Century England 142 -- Pearl 146 -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 151 -- X. Chaucer -- Chaucer's Contemporaries 160 -- Early Chaucer 164 -- Canterbury Tales 170.

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Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.