Medieval Sign Theory and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
- Author / Editor
- Arthur, Ross G.
Medieval Sign Theory and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
- Published
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
- Description
- Educated English audiences of the fourteenth century would have been familiar with the "formal theory of signs" from sermons, poetry, and heraldic practice and would have appreciated the pentangle, green girdle, and wound in Gawain's neck. The "Gawain"-poet controls ambiguity to direct the audience toward a profitable interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.