'þis Gome Gered in Grene':
Ecocritical Notes on “Sir Gawain and the Green Night”
'þis Gome Gered in Grene':
Ecocritical Notes on “Sir Gawain and the Green Night”
Author(s): Dan Nicolae PopescuSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: Sir Gawain; The Green Knight/Bertilak; ecocritical standpoint; binary opposition; civilization/nature;
Summary/Abstract: The present essay attempts to bring to attention several elements in the fourteenth-century Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that lend themselves to ecocritical analysis. The anonymous poet’s treatment of the alternation of human and environmental settings displays an awareness of the principle of human predominance over creation that advances in two directions: aggression and stewardship. In its concern with the non-human and the environment, the poem invites an ecocritical reading in that it concentrates on an ecological setting described as a recountal of binary oppositions, such as human/non-human, inhabited/wild, hospitable/hostile, etc.
Journal: Meridian critic
- Issue Year: XXIII/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 47-54
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
