The pattern of judgment in the Queste and Cleanness / Charlotte C. Morse
1978, First Edition. Columbia : University of Missouri Press. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Minor library marks remain (internally). Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #447182
ISBN: 082620242X
Physical description; x, 238 pages ; 23 cm. Contents; The Paradigm of the Vessel as an Image of Man -- Vessels as Images of Man -- The Vessel of Wrath: Adultery, Idolatry, and Murder -- The Concept of Sacrilege -- The Vessel of Mercy: Ritual Purity -- Christian Banquet: Rite of Fellowship and Rite of Marriage -- The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's Tale of the Sankgreal -- The History of Lancelot: Key to the Relationship of the Sankgreal to the Queste -- Call to the Quest for the Grail: A Search for Meaning -- The Typology of Eve: Lancelot and Perceval -- The Typology of Cain and Abel: Gawain and Bors -- The Adventure of Solomon's Ship: Return to Eden and Fulfillment of History -- The Climax of the quest: The Grail Visions and Eschatological Marriage -- Cleanness -- The Structure of History in Cleanness -- The Wedding Feast in Cleanness: Prologue to the Poem and Epilogue to History -- Lucifer, Adam, and Nebuchadnezzar: Problems of Fall and Redemption -- The Evidence of History: Noah and the Flood -- The Evidence of History: Abraham and Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah -- The Christ-event: The Center of History -- The Evidence of History: Sedecias and Belshazzar as Polluted Vessels -- Epilogue. Subjects; Queste del Saint Graal. Arthurian romances History and criticism. Grail Legends.
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