Unhappy Endings: Failed Love/Failed Faith in Late Romances
- Author / Editor
- Diamond, Arlyn.
Unhappy Endings: Failed Love/Failed Faith in Late Romances
- Published
- Carol M. Meale, ed. Readings in Medieval English Romance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 65-81.
- Description
- Examines the intersection of gender, genre, and history in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and KnT to argue that "the inversion or refusal of generic conventions, enabled by the self-conscious use of a rich tradition of courtly narratives, points to a loss of faith in the social structures within which such narratives were generated." Also mentions TC, MilT, and RvT.
- Alternative Title
- Readings in Medieval English Romance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.