Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight by Bahr, Arthur
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight by Bahr, Arthur

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both...
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SKU: 9780226835358
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Author: Arthur Bahr
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight by Bahr, Arthur

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight

$174.74
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight by Bahr, Arthur

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight

$174.74
Author: Arthur Bahr
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.

In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve illustrations of the so-called "Pearl-Manuscript," the only surviving medieval copy of two of the best-known Middle English poems: Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript, Bahr explores how the physical manuscript itself enhances our perception of the poetry, drawing on recent technological advances (such as spectroscopic analysis) to show the Pearl-Manuscript to be a more complex piece of material, visual, and textual art than previously understood. By connecting the manuscript's construction to the intricate language in the texts, Bahr suggests new ways to understand both what poetry is and what poetry can do.

Author: Arthur Bahr
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 03/27/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780226835358


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/13/2025

About the Author
Arthur Bahr is associate professor of literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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