ENG 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wield, Wace
7 Mar 2018
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Identify passages - work taken from, context and significance of passage and author. 5 marks for each 3 for identification 2 for context. 2nd question = essay 1 of 3 questions. Chretien had a short life (died around 40) Lion started to be written, interrupted because had commission, wrote all of the cart, went back to the lion. First real appearance of lancelot, first time tied to queen. Guinevere from the beginning has always had a bad ending. Opening - "since my lady of champagne wills me expende" shape the work. Important function of the poet and not the "conteur" From lancelot imprisoned in the tower on, not chretien as the author - clerk. "lords if i were to say more i would depart from the matter" Marie gave the sense and meaning, but he can"t resolve it happily. It is a romance not markedly different in structure.
