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Edward Vasta, ed.
Middle English Survey: Critical Essays.
Publisher: Notre Dame U.P., 1965.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 136×201×24mm.
Page count: x,336pp.
Main language: English; quotations generally given with a modern English translation.
Overall condition fair to good: the covers on this copy are somewhat rubbed with some scuffs and scrapes, but not severely worn; the spine is a bit wrinkled, but is not otherwise creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 364g.

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Collects fifteen influential essays, all previously published elsewhere:
Manning, Analogy & imagery;
Peterson, Owl & the Nightingale and Christian dialectic;
Engelhardt, Predicament of Gawain;
Green, Gawain’s shield & the quest for perfection;
Johnson, Imagery & diction of The Pearl;
Hamilton, Meaning of the ME Pearl;
Wells, Construction of Piers Plowman;
Frank, Pardon scene in Piers Plowman;
Zeeman, Piers Plowman & the pilgrimage to Truth;
Coffman, Gower in his most significant role;
Brewer, “the hoole book”;
Tucker, Place of the quest of the Holy Grail in the Morte Darthur;
Watt, Dramatic unity of the Secunda Pastorum;
Ryan, Doctrine & dramatic structure in Everyman;
Moore, Literary status of the English popular ballad.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 3
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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