| Title: | ‘Þis Gome Gered In Grene’: Ecocritical Notes on “Sir Gawain and the Greeen Knight” |
| Author: | Dan Nicolae Popescu |
| Publication: | Meridian Critic / Analele Universităţii „Ștefan cel Mare” din Suceava. Seria Filologie. A. Lingvistică, B. Literatură, 23 (2), Section Criticism. Writing Green, Reading Green, p. 47-54 |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-6787 |
| Publisher: | Editura Universităţii din Suceava |
| Place: | Suceava |
| Year: | 2014 |
| 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. |
| Key words: | Sir Gawain, The Green Knight/Bertilak, ecocritical standpoint, binary opposition, civilization/nature |
| Language: | English |
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