가웨인과 녹색기사의 지리적 상상력: 워럴의 숲
The Geographical Imagination in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Wilderness of Wirral
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This paper examines the significance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ofthe poem’s explicit choice of destination for Gawain’s adventure, “thewilderness of Wirral.” The wilderness in an Arthurian romance is aconventional space of adventure and growth. This particular space in this poemis created in the geographically specific Wirral which happens to be part ofCheshire where our poet most likely is from and where Richard II based hispolitical and military support during his reign. This paper argues that theromantically charged space of wilderness is also an apt metaphor for Cheshireas the region as a whole was historically perceived as geographical, politicaland cultural periphery, dangerous but also beneficial. With its purely negativeconnotations, of its being remote and intractable, the wilderness may also be areflection of the hostile and prejudicial view many Londoners bore against theregion in the face of the king’s open favoritism and other criticism the king andhis court were drawing. The poem, it shall be seen, explores the possibility ofexpanding courtliness through all kinds of wildness characterized by its spatialmanifestation, wilderness. How this theme is played out against the impliedCheshire as wilderness in this Arthurian romance by a poet who is known forhis celebrations of courtly values and splendor in his other works during thetime of a king who so vigorously promoted courtly culture is the focus of thisstudy.
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This paper examines the significance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ofthe poem’s explicit choice of destination for Gawain’s adventure, “thewilderness of Wirral.” The wilderness in an Arthurian romance is aconventional space of adventure and growth. This particular space in this poemis created in the geographically specific Wirral which happens to be part ofCheshire where our poet most likely is from and where Richard II based hispolitical and military support during his reign. This paper argues that theromantically charged space of wilderness is also an apt metaphor for Cheshireas the region as a whole was historically perceived as geographical, politicaland cultural periphery, dangerous but also beneficial. With its purely negativeconnotations, of its being remote and intractable, the wilderness may also be areflection of the hostile and prejudicial view many Londoners bore against theregion in the face of the king’s open favoritism and other criticism the king andhis court were drawing. The poem, it shall be seen, explores the possibility ofexpanding courtliness through all kinds of wildness characterized by its spatialmanifestation, wilderness. How this theme is played out against the impliedCheshire as wilderness in this Arthurian romance by a poet who is known forhis celebrations of courtly values and splendor in his other works during thetime of a king who so vigorously promoted courtly culture is the focus of thisstudy.
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