English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Alliterative Verse, Ladylike
12 Sep 2012
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Sir gawain and the green knight : quest: perilous journey, crucial strength, exaltation of the hero, willing suspension of belief coleridge, verse paragraph, alliterative verse, bod + wheel, seven deadly sins: Sloth (negligence, indifference, laziness, an inability to pray: long poem: neither epical in scope nor yet wholly lyrical in quality w. m. Grievson, the english damassus green knight is hybrid: distinctly post-modem form of poetry. Overview of romance : simplified characters: good or evil, exotic settings: different from us in place, time and class (aristocratic world, episodic plot: separated story into different parts with separate events. Simplified characters : willing suspension of disbelief (like roadrunner), don"t ask (why doesn"t donald duck wear pants?). We accept it as true: no toilets in sir gawain and the green knight , they don"t deal with realities of day to day life no questions asked, background on sir gawain and the green knight:
