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Practical Criticism, 1995

In this chapter we want to reinforce the points made in the previous chapter, but with rather mor... more In this chapter we want to reinforce the points made in the previous chapter, but with rather more emphasis on how to discuss a detail and on how to link impressions together in such a way as to be sure that you are building a strong case. The extracts considered are from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.

In La Mule, the hero Is summoned by messenger to effect the disenchantment of a waste city. Altho... more In La Mule, the hero Is summoned by messenger to effect the disenchantment of a waste city. Although Klttredge believes that the English SGGK Is descended from the French version, he does not deny the Influence of these others on the Eng lish poem, an Influence which Is due In part to certain mythic characteristics of the Universal Hero, which Gawain certainly Is. Interestingly enough, Perlesvaus, the hero of which Is Lancelot, Is as sophisticated in Its use of magic as SGGK. The challenger, for Instance, cannot resume his head, even though the city can be disenchanted only when a knight will kill and then return to be killed. In the action of the story proper, only two brothers are left, and one of them Is slain by Lancelot so that In the end only one re mains. The author does not make clear the precise manner In which the city Is disenchanted or even how the enchant ment came to be laid on In the first place because he does not wish to go Into enchantment, apparently. The level of sophistication can be seen when In the jeu parti both Lancelot and Gawain reply In effect that only a fool would hesitate In choosing to behead rather than be beheaded. Obviously the practical considerations of the hard-headed adult must enter here. Other treatments of the sources aurgue the similarity between various French romances, the German Dlu Krône. and-li the Irish Fled Bricrend (Bricriu* s-Feast).^ Billings says that the real difference between the romances derived from the Irish tale and the others is that the central incident of the Challenge (or the Beheading Game, as Kittredge terms it) is only incidental to the French poem, Chrétien*s Perce val, the Prose Perceval. La Mule, and Gawain et Humbart. Jessie Weston, interestingly enough, rejects the Conte du Graal as an original source and says the Irish tale is the 6 oldest of all. Both she amd Roger Loomis are primarily con cerned with the raythic-religio implications of the quest as it is part of Gawain*s journey to find the Green Chapel. In fact, Loomis is interested in the connection between SGGK and Bricriu*s Feast only as it shows Gawain as a sun-god. He has done work on the antiquity of the names of Gawain and believes, unlike most Gawain students, that the earlier name 7 Gwalchmai descended from the French Galvain. Mrs. Alice Buchanan has correlated an entire group of stories with both the framework and the minor features of SGGK. All these stories are of direct Irish origin and include The Champion*s Bargain, Yellow and Terror, Curoi*s 5 Anna Hunt Billings, A Guide to Middle English Metri cal Romances Dealing with EngTisM and""3ermanic Legends' (kew York: Henry Holt and Co., iMl), p T^S â .

Here you will get a complete history of literature (English) ranging from old English to modern E... more Here you will get a complete history of literature (English) ranging from old English to modern English, various prominent writers, novelists, poets and other literary figures that were prominent in different periods. You also get to know about Literary devices, figures and forms

The Student’s Guide to Writing, 2012

How to Begin Studying English Literature (second edition) Nicholas Marsh How to Study a Jane Aust... more How to Begin Studying English Literature (second edition) Nicholas Marsh How to Study a Jane Austen Novel (second edition) Vivien jones How to Study Chaucer (second edition) Robert Pope How to Study a Joseph Conrad Novel Brian Spittles How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel Keith Selby How to Study Foreign Languages Marilyn Lewis How to Study an E. M. Forster Novel Nigel Messenger

Renaissance Quarterly, 1997

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Italica, 1998

The English Journal, 1986

Practical Criticism, 1995

The Student’s Guide to Writing, 2012

Renaissance Quarterly, 1997

Italica, 1998

The English Journal, 1986