Publisher:Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1965.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Analogy and imagery -- The owl and the nightingale and Christian dialectic -- The predicament of Gawain -- Gawain's shield and the quest for perfection -- The imagery and diction of The pearl: toward an interpretation -- The meaning of the Middle English Pearl -- The construction of Piers Plowman -- The pardon scene in Piers Plowman -- Piers Plowman and the pilgrimage to truth --John Gower in his most significant role -- "the hoole book" -- The place of the quest of the Holy Grail in the Morte Darthur -- The dramatic unity of the Secunda Pastorum -- Doctrine and dramatic structure in Everyman -- The literary status of the English popular ballad.
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