ENGL 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Guinevere, Cador, The Delay
6 Sep 2016
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Geigemar: finds happiness for a brief time: yonek, kind husband and wife is punished: biscovre, lais where hero must learn to love to reach profection: geigemar, queen makes a pass at the hero: lanval. Quiz 2 knight of the cart: knight of the cart cretian de troies. 8. full or partial manuscripts for knight of the cart- 8. Lover of the queen is the best knight. Blood on the sheets= knight gets blood on sheets, kay gets blood on sheets. ambiguous oath (no man between her thighs) : reworked lancelot didn"t sleep with kay (didn"t say he didn"t sleep with the queen) Judicial ordeal: swear on a holy relic and submit to torture. Golden hair: reworked with the ivory comb- tristen story= bird flies in room with golden hair. Finishes the tale for cretian: which of the lais is there a sympathetic approach to adultery. In the prologue to cliges, the translation studii et imperii is.
