Bibliography
On Reserve in the Library:
- J. J. Anderson, Cleanness (Manchester, 1977).
- Robert J. Blanch, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Reference
Guide (Troy, N.Y., 1983).
- Marie Boroff, ‘Pearl’: A New Verse Translation
(New York and Toronto, 1977).
- Marie Boroff, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (New
York, 1967).
- John Gardner, The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet
(Chicago, London and Amsterdam, 1965).
- Brian Stone, The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness, St
Erkenwald (London, 1971).
- William Vantuono, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Dual-Language
Version (New York, 1991).
- William Vantuono, Pearl: An Edition with Verse Translation
(New York, 1995).
General Historical Background:
- Gervase Mathew, The Court of Richard II (1968).
- Nigel Saul, Richard II (1999).
- Nigel Saul, The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England
(Oxford, 2001).
Literary History:
- J.A. Burrow, Ricardian Poetry (1971).
- J.A. Burrow, Medieval Writers and Their Work: An Introduction
to Middle English Literature (1982).
- Ralph Hannah, “Alliterative Poetry”, in The
Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David
Wallace (Cambridge, 1999).
Individual Works:
Note: These references are far from complete. You should still
search the MLA Bibliography for a larger range of works, including
the most recent ones. The references below are for the most part
discussions of the individual poems or general works with substantial
discussions on the individual poems. Some may not be in the CSUN
library and will have to be ordered by interlibrary loan, so plan
ahead.
Patience
- J.J. Anderson, "The Prologue of Patience,"
Modern Philology 63 (1965-6): 283-7.
- Malcolm Andrew, "Jonah and Christ in Patience,"
Modern Philology 70 (1972-3): 320-33.
- Anna P. Baldwin, "The Triumph of Patience in Julian of
Norwich and Langland," in Langland, the Mystics, and
the Medieval English Tradition: Essays in Honour of S.S. Hussey,
ed. Helen Phillips (Woodbridge, 1990).
- Normand Berlin, "Patience: A Study in Poetic Elaboration,"
Studia Neophilologica 33 (1961): 80-85.
- R.H. Bowers, The Legend of Jonah (The Hague, 1971).
- J.A. Burrow, "Two Notes on Patience," Notes
and Queries 234 (1989): 300-3.
- S.L. Clark and Julian N. Wasserman, "Jonah and the Whale:
Narrative Perspective in Patience," Orbis Literarum
35 (1980): 1-19.
- W.A. Davenport, The Art of the Gawain-Poet (London,
1978).
- F.N.M Diekstra, "Jonah and Patience: The Psychology
of a Prophet," English Studies 55 (1974): 205-17.
- John B. Friedman, "Figural Typology in Patience,"
in The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century,
ed. Bernard S. Levy and Paul E. Szarmach (Kent, Ohio, 1981).
- Ordelle G. Hill, "The Audience of Patience,"
Modern Philology 66 (1968-9): 103-9.
- Charles Moorman, "The Role of the Narrator in Patience,"
Modern Philology 61 (1963-4): 90-95.
- Jay Schleusner, "History and Action in Patience,"
Publications of the Modern Language Association 86 (1971):
959-65.
- R.A. Shoaf, "God's 'Malyse': Metaphor and Conversion in
Patience," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance
Studies 11 (1981-2): 261-79.
- A.C. Spearing, "Patience and the Gawain-Poet,"
Anglia 84 (1966): 305-29.
- A.C. Spearing, The Gawain-Poet: A Critical Study (Cambridge,
1970).
- Sarah Stanbury, "Space and Visual Hermeneutics in the Gawain-Poet,"
Chaucer Review 21 (1987): 476-89.
- Myra Stokes, "Suffering in Patience," Chaucer
Review 18 (1983-4): 354-64.
- Wiliam Vantuono, "The Structure and Sources of Patience,"
Mediaeval Studies 34 (1972): 402-22.
- David Williams, "The Point of Patience,"
Modern Philology 68 (1970-71): 127-36.
Cleanness
- S.L. Clark and Julian N. Wasserman, “Purity:
The Cities of the Dove and the Raven,” American Benedictine
Review 19 (1978): 284-306.
- Penelope B.R. Doob, “Nebuchadnezzar and the Conventions
of Madness,” in Nebuchadnezzar’s Children: Conventions
of Madness in Middle English Literature (New Haven, 1974).
- Jonathan A. Glenn, “Dislocution of Kynde in the
Middle English Cleanness,” Chaucer Review
18 (1983-4): 77-91.
- Elizabeth A. Keiser, “The Festive Decorum of Cleanness,”
Studies in Medieval Culture 14 (1980): 63-75.
- T.D. Kelly and J.T. Irwin, “The Meaning of Cleanness:
parable as effective sign,” Medieval Studies 35
(1973): 232-60.
- A.V.C. Schmidt, “Kynde Craft and the Play
of Paramore3”: Natural and Unnatural Love in Purity,”
in Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature,
ed. Piero Boitano and Anna Torti (Tübingen, 1988), 105-24.
- Earl G. Schneiber, “The Structure of Cleanness,”
in The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century,
ed. Bernard S. Levy and Paul E. Szarmach (Kent, Ohio, 1981).
- A.C. Spearing, The Gawain-Poet: A Critical Study (Cambridge,
1970).
- A.C. Spearing, “Purity and Danger,” Essays
in Criticism 30 (1980): 293-310.
- William Vantuono, “A Triple-Three Structure for Cleanness,”
Manuscripta 28 (1984): 26-37.
- David Wallace, “Cleanness and the Terms of Terror,”
in Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives on the Pearl-Poet,”
eds. R.J. Blanch, M.Y. Miller, and J.N. Wasserman (New York, 1991),
93-104.
Pearl
- Robert W. Ackerman, "The Pearl-Maiden and the Penny."
Romance Philology 17 (1964), 615-23. Reprinted in Conley, Pp.
149-62. [English and Continental sources for female instructresses
and the parable of the vineyard; penny as Eucharistic host.]
- David Aers. "The Self Mourning: Reflections on Pearl."
Speculum 69 (1993), 54-73. [Situates narrator within
sociopolitical interests of late fourteenth-century court culture;
narrator's individualism at odds with maiden's idealization of
Catholic communal values.]
- Ross G. Arthur, "The Day of Judgment is Now: A Johannine
Pattern in the Middle English Pearl." American
Benedictine Review 38 (1987), 227-42. [Pearl in
relation to medieval sign theory.]
- Ann W. Astell. The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990 [Maiden as Anima, or
the Bernardine trope of mystical brideship. Male protagonist must
encompass feminine principle within himself.]
- Helen Barr, "Pearl--or 'The Jeweller's Tale.'"
Medium Ævum 69 (2000), 59-79. [Pearls and gems
in late fourteenth-century aristocratic culture; poem's "mercantile
consciousness" (61) and concerns with social order.]
- Ian Bishop, Pearl in Its Setting: A Critical Study of the
Structure and Meaning of the Middle English Poem. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1968. [Genre, especially allegory; idea of innocence;
number symbolism.]
- Robert J. Blanch, "The Current State of Pearl
Criticism." Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996), 21-33.
- Robert J. Blanch, "Supplement to the Gawain-Poet:
An Annotated Bibliography, 1978-85." Chaucer Review
25.4 (1991), 363-86.
- Michael Foley, "The Gawain-Poet: An Annotated
Bibliography, 1978-85." Chaucer Review 23.3 (1989),
250-82.
- Robert J. Blanch and Julian N. Wasserman. From Pearl to
Gawain: Forme to Fynisment. Gainesville: University of Florida
Press, 1995. [Thematic study from standpoint of providential history;
focus on miracles, language, role of narrator, covenants, iconography
of the hand.]
- Theodore Bogodanos. Pearl, Image of the Ineffable: A Study
in Medieval Poetic Symbolism. University Park: Pennsylvania
University Press, 1983. [Medieval symbolism and sign theory--e.g.
Pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure.]
- John Bowers. "Pearl in Its Royal Setting: Ricardian
Poetry Revisited." Studies in the Age of Chaucer
17 (1995), 111-55. [Reading Pearl in relation to Richard
II's court; argues poem is consistently royalist, and imagery
of poem reiterates Richard's regalian themes and images.]
- John Bowers. "The Politics of Pearl." Exemplaria
7 (1995), 419-41. [Parable of vineyard as exemplary of late fourteenth-century
social concerns, especially unruly labour.]
- John Bowers. The Politics of Pearl: Court Poetry in the
Age of Richard II. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2001.
- Maria Bullon-Fernandez. "Be3onde þe Water: Courtly
and Religious Desire in Pearl." Studies in Philology
91 (1994), 35-49. [Contrasts between religious and courtly desire;
poetic play of erotic desire violates both categories.]
- Lawrence Clopper. "Pearl and the Consolation of
Scripture." Viator 23 (1991), 231-45. [Poem as progressive
meditative itinerary based on Augustine.]
- John Conley, ed. The Middle English Pearl: Critical Essays.
South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1955.
- Catherine S. Cox. "Pearl's 'Precios Pere': Gender,
Language, and Difference." Chaucer Review 32.4 (1998),
337-90. [Gender binaries inform poem's poetics and drive its formations
of transgressive desire, with feminine representing the plural,
carnal, and literal.]
- Morton Donner. "Word Play and Word Form in Pearl."
Chaucer Review 24 (1989), 166-82. [Variation in morphological
form of link words as important component of poem's lexical play.]
- James W. Earl. "Saint Margaret and the Pearl Maiden."
Modern Philology 70 (1972), 1-8. [Virgin martyr St. Margaret
as source for the Pearl-maiden.]
- Rosalind Field. "The Heavenly Jerusalem in Pearl."
Modern Language Review 81 (1986), 7-17. [Poem's uses
of and divergence from biblical Apocalypse text; image of wounded
lamb in Apocalypse MSS.]
- John Finlayson. "Pearl: Landscape and Vision."
Studies in Philology 71 (1974), 314-43. [Description
of landscape as objective correlative to narrator's spiritual
understanding.]
- This listing will be supplemented soon.
Other Resources:
Note: I am still compiling a list of recommended journal articles
and other useful texts. You should make use of the MLA Bibliography
and Interlibrary Loan to research materials in this medium. You
will also find it helpful to use the internet links on the resources
page. |