184 Pages
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Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continuous narrative. While it is widely accepted that the poems attributed to the Pearl-Poet ought to be read together, this book demonstrates that instead of being analyzed as four distinct, though... Read more
Introduction The Poet and the Manuscript; Chapter 1 Blinded by Sin, Dazzled by Light: Heaven, Earth and the Great Divide; Chapter 2 An Augustinian Change of Perspective: The Incarnation and the Possibility of Positive Knowledge; Chapter 3 Part of God’s Plan: Pointing and the Poynt of Patience; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Piotr Spyra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Åódź, Poland.
'While Spyra has convincingly established links between the epistemology of the Pearl-Poet and the Neoplatonic nature of St Augustine's sign-theory, he has also drawn some compelling parallels between the design and thematic content of the Cotton Nero manuscript and the interests and concerns of theologians ... closer in time to the Pearl-Poet. In doing so, Spyra creates space for future investigations into whether the less-Augustinian epistemologies of fourteenth-century philosophers might contribute to the understanding of the Cotton Nero texts.' Parergon
