ENG 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hyperbole, Gildas

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 2130
• Professor: David Staines

Document Summary

Arthurian literature largest field of texts about a single person outside of religious texts. King arthur people think of camelot (movie, musical) comes to mean paradise. Concept of camelot has no validity in our texts camelot decays. 1st text = 12th century 6 centuries after arthur supposedly existed. Elliot the wasteland (arthurian literature) decay everything gone except the wind. Galahad la(cid:374)celot"s so(cid:374), la(cid:374)celot co(cid:373)es i(cid:374) later. Many people referrer to the myth of king arthur. Word myth has so many connotations so not in the title of the course. Up till recently fable, fiction, not real. Some writers tennyson arthur is a mythic hero. Growth of arthurian story until generations come together and create of myth. Ad 43: year the colony of britain is established, even at this time, keltic people congregating towards the south, later west, roman invasion. 3rd century: difficulty of ro(cid:373)a(cid:374) - raids of germanic peoples, so many invasions gradually rome pulls away from britain.