ENG 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wace

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

Document Summary

Sir gawain and the green knight- the englishman"s perfect romance. Tenyson- decried because he wrote about king arthur- couldn"t wrote about him because critics said. Roundtable not part of original stories- came later- added by wace. Lancelot is a fairly late edition to the story. King marc had a wife who was called zolt. She and her husband had one top knight named. Arthur and guinevere- missing someone to have an affair with his wife- lancelot. Involves in the first place the historical sense. This historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence. The historical sense compels a man not ony to write with his generation, but with the feeling of the literarure of his country composes a literary order. The timeless and the temporal together is what makes a writer traditional. Arthurian tradition puts each writer in a conscious stream.