The Western Literary Canon in Context

King Arthur, Politics, and Sir Gawain (1x14)

Data emisji: Sty 01, 2008

Find out how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with its message of chivalric virtue and its intricate composition, passes the "canonic test." This lecture unpacks each of the poem's parts and presents unique insights into the political climate in which it and other Arthurian legends developed.