Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Rethinking Romance

Scholary Paper aus dem Jahr 1999 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1 (A), Universität Zürich (English Seminar), Veranstaltung: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 16 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Anmerkungen: , Abstract: This paper discusses how the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight uses, explores and sometimes undermines the conventions of the Arthurian romance genre. As a basis for this investigation, a definition of the genre is sketched, using a structuralist model along with a set of typical motifs found in many romances. Having established the essential genre elements the papier then examines the way the Gawain-poet makes use of these in his text. After identifying the fundamentally generic structure of the poem the author concentrates on incidents where the poet plays ironically with the reader's genre expectations.