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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of Righteousness.
By Gerald Morgan. Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1991. Pp. 173. $39.50.
Distilling the key themes of his articles on the pentangle symbol (MLR, 1979), the nature of Gawain's confession (RES, 1985), and the hunting and bedroom tableaux (MAE, 1987), Morgan offers a book-length critical study of Gawain. Calling attention to the shaping power of the Gawain-poet's historical and cultural milieu, Morgan attempts "to go beyond the text to the larger context of ideas that have informed it" (p. 11). In particular, Morgan selects scholastic philosophy, notably the ideas of Aquinas, as the intellectual/spiritual context ...
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