Barbara Kowalik
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Kowalik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Kowalik |
| SIGNATURE | KOWALIK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6479-2164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Personified Gemstone
This paper reinterprets the central character of the Middle English dream poem Pearl, the Pearl Maiden, observing that she is nearly as bewilderingly elusive and multifaceted a figure as the green challenger of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, another famous poem attributed to the same unknown fourteenth-century author. The paper’s argument draws upon the pre-modern perception of gemstones as animate beings and on modern thing theory as developed…
Was She a Boy? The Queer Maiden of the Middle English Pearl
This paper investigates gender in Middle English Pearl through language analysis in broader literary, cultural, and philosophical contexts, focusing particularly on the portrayal of the maiden, but taking into account also the dreamer-narrator and the Lamb. It is demonstrated that, far from being a consistently feminine figure, the Pearl maiden is a queer being, invested with masculine attributes as well. The article traces the reversals of norma…
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Was She a Boy? The Queer Maiden of the Middle English Pearl
This paper investigates gender in Middle English Pearl through language analysis in broader literary, cultural, and philosophical contexts, focusing particularly on the portrayal of the maiden, but taking into account also the dreamer-narrator and the Lamb. It is demonstrated that, far from being a consistently feminine figure, the Pearl maiden is a queer being, invested with masculine attributes as well. The article traces the reversals of norma…
Personified Gemstone
This paper reinterprets the central character of the Middle English dream poem Pearl, the Pearl Maiden, observing that she is nearly as bewilderingly elusive and multifaceted a figure as the green challenger of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, another famous poem attributed to the same unknown fourteenth-century author. The paper’s argument draws upon the pre-modern perception of gemstones as animate beings and on modern thing theory as developed…
Pearl (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Allegory (1 work) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Character (mathematics) (1 work) · Criticism (1 work) · Daughter (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)