The Idea of the Green Knight

Besserman, Lawrence

doi:10.2307/2873255

Cited by 7 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…It is very ambiguous, for the challenger is a mysterious character -"an amalgam of nature and culture" (Chism 2002: 76), and the description alternates between the beautiful and the grotesque. From a literary standpoint, this conflicting description of the Green Knight was studied, to name a few major works, by Benson (1965: 58-95), Burrow (1977: 12-23), and Besserman (1986). We see the Green Knight both as a handsome courtier, dressed in line with the latest fashion, and a monster, a bearded churl, and the language of the description alternates accordingly.…”

Section: French Loanwords In Descriptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Loanwords and stylistics: on the gallicisms in <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i>

Volkonskaya

2013

ESUKA-JEFUL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article explores the way in which loanwords become incorporated into a recipient language. It concentrates on the interim period, the time between the borrowing of a new word from a donor language and its incorporation into a recipient language. During this period the new word still retains some of its “foreignness”, its associations with another language and culture, therefore its stylistic potential is enhanced. The material is taken from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an English poem written in the latter half of the 14th century, at the time of the greatest influx of French words into English. This article shows that the Gawain-poet uses gallicisms as an expressive part of his poetic technique due to their stylistic potential as what were at the time recent borrowings.

show abstract

Section: French Loanwords In Descriptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%