The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle.
by Gardner, John Champlin
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0809306689
- ISBN 13
- 9780809306688
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About This Item
Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Tx), 1974-06-01. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG/ND. 15.2 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm. Box X03 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Thus.* Date of Publication: 1974* Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to corners. VG* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels from the University of Texas at Brownsville. Stiff, glazed, buff end-papers with portions of the dust-jacket flaps attached. ?UTB? stamp to top, fore and bottom edges. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 140 pp. text. xxii pp. notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: In this first detailed and complete analysis of the entire Wakefield Pageant cycle, John Gardner celebrates it's beauty as a work of art and demonstrates that it may have been shaped by a single man ? The Wakefield Master. Gardner?s study points out the controlling allegorical scheme which organises the entire work ? a scheme involving, among other things, an ironic witchcraft metaphor, in which sinfully proud men (Herod, Pilate, and others), worshippers of the devil, view Christ as a warlock who must be condemned, though they themselves are in fact the witches. From Creation to Last Judgement, the Wakefield cycle treats biblical events as a feudal war between the true God, Christ (or the trinity), and the cosmic pretender, Satan, dramatising the theme of salvation coherently and powerfully.* A VG text copy with minor wear, library stamps and labels but no dust jacket.*
Synopsis
ANNE APPLEBAUM was born in Washington, D.C., received a bachelor’s degree from Yale, and studied at Saint Antony’s College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics on a Marshall scholarship. In 1988, she moved to Poland to work for the Economist , and a few years later became foreign editor, then deputy editor, of the Spectator . Her work has also appeared in the New York Review of Books , the Wall Street Journal , Slate and other British and American publications. She is the author of one previous book, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe . After living for more than fifteen years in Europe, she joined the editorial board of the Washington Post in 2002 and now lives in Washington, D.C.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 766
- Title
- The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle.
- Author
- Gardner, John Champlin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/ND
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0809306689
- ISBN 13
- 9780809306688
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Tx)
- Place of Publication
- Carbondale
- Date Published
- 1974-06-01
- Pages
- 162
- Size
- 15.2 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm
- X weight
- g
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