An Animal Studies and Ecocritical Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
學年 106
學期 1
出版（發表）日期 2017-12-01
作品名稱 An Animal Studies and Ecocritical Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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著者 Iris Ralph
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著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Neohelicon 44(2), p.431-444
摘要 In this ecocritical and animal studies reading of the anonymous fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375–1400), I focus on what the poem divulges about medieval attitudes toward hunting animals for sport. Studies that focus on the blurring of conceptual, cognitive, and ethical distinctions between animals and humans in medieval literature invite consideration of that blurring as it is found in the triple hunt scenes of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. My argument is that the triple hunt scenes confront the problem of truth (trawþe) in the context of animal sports as well as in the context of the games in which Bertilak invites Gawain and the court of Camelot to participate. In elaborating on the given content, I also note the thematic and conceptual overlaps among Bertilak, Gawain, and the fox, a tripling that scholars have overlooked in their focus on the parallels between Gawain and the deer, boar, and fox. I rely on scholarly studies by such key figures in animal studies and medieval studies as Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Susan Crane and such key figures in ecocriticism and medieval studies as Gillian Rudd and Corinne J. Saunders in my focus on animal hunting in medieval Britain. In addition, I refer to several modern translations of the poem: two recent translations by W. S. Merwin and Simon Armitage and three older and canonical translations by J. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, Marie Borroff, and Brian Stone.
關鍵字 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight;animal studies;ecocriticism;medieval literature
語言 en_US
ISSN 0324-4652
期刊性質 國外
收錄於 A&HCI
產學合作 國內 國外
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審稿制度 是
國別 HUN
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