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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"”.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Analysis
<p>Sir Gawain and the Green -.night is a late fourteenth century metrical romance. It is acclaimed by many as the finest representative of Arthurian romance literature in English. The poem comes to us from one source only, a manuscript in the Cotton Collection in the British Museum, Nero A. X. The …
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Entertainment--the Author's Intention
<p>The subject of this paper is the Gawain poet and his monumental poem <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>. The concern will not be with the poet's identity or social rank, but will instead be with his motives. In some places this paper will appear to work backwards, assuming that since a …
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The power of the medieval Solomon-magus and Solomon-auctor revealed through the "Canterbury Tales", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and the "Tale of the Sankgreal"
<p>The Solomon-<em>auctor</em> and Solomon-<em> magus</em> traditions begin in the biblical record, and attribute authority to Solomon not only through his ever-familiar wisdom but also his authorship of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs; his administration and craftsmanship in the building …
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The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
Study of the Medieval English romance has burgeoned in recent years, with a focus on the world outside of the texts being central to the resurgence. I offer in this dissertation a reading of four of these works (Athelston, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Cleges, and Sir Gowther) that considers …
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Importance of Medieval Numerology and the Effects Upon Meaning in the Works of the Gawain-Poet
<p>An examination of the influence of medieval numerology and number theory upon the works of the Gawain poet, this essay seeks to connect the importance of numbers to the construction of the four poems. By examining such number theories as the Divine Proportion and marriage numbers, as well as …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
<p>As a result of the growth of cities and the rise of a merchant class in later medieval England, the desire for privacy began to emerge alongside an increase in personal consciousness. In my dissertation, I examine the place of privacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England by juxtaposing …
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The high wasteland, scar, form, and monstrosity in the English landscape: what is the function of the monster in representations of the English landscape?
In this thesis, I explore themes and concerns that have arisen in my art practice, namely the relationship between landscape, monstrosity, and subjectivity. The tropes scar and form refer to features analogous in the subject and in the land which take on different specific meanings throughout the …
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The High Wasteland, Scar, Form, and Monstrosity in the English Landscape: What Is the Function of the Monster in Representations of the English Landscape?
In this thesis, I explore themes and concerns that have arisen in my art practice, namely the relationship between landscape, monstrosity, and subjectivity. The tropes scar and form refer to features analogous in the subject and in the land which take on different specific meanings throughout the …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
… three texts, namely Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, Geoffrey Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale", and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I seek to demonstrate how clothing, honour, gender and gifts shape the experiences of the characters as they find their social place, and disrupt the …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
<p>The 14th-century Middle English poems <em>Cleanness</em> and <em>Patience</em>, homiletic retellings of biblical stories which appear in the same manuscript as <em>Pearl</em> and <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>, offer moral lessons to a general Christian audience, but the introduction …
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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
<p>I explore the dynamics of homosociality in late medieval culture, investigating both Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> and its cultural and political environments. I articulate two conflicting attitudes toward male same-sex relations: one affirming and celebratory, the other homophobic. I …
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Discovering Border Crossings in Pagan Epic Literature
… argues that border crossings were important to the ancient Celts and Norse as evidenced by the vast quantity of occurrences in their literature,and have remained important themes in literature throughout the ages. Border crossings reflect man's fascination with concepts beyond his immediate …