Today – too much to do: let’s list everything and then we will know what to fill in.

1. Papers – workshop and colloquia

Topic due

Public and private feedback

Workshop

Colloquia

Turn them in

2. King Arthur and Pop Culture

Jerry Bruckheimer King Arthur 2004 – based upon “recent archaeological evidence.”

Scene –

Sarmatian Knights – Roman soldiers (the term knight)

See wikipedia article on the movie

3. Gerald Bond

Some general critical theory principles

Results of his reading

Allegorical reading à political import

Aesthetic reading à political import

Entertainment reading

Self-referentiality – Lady and the Clerk

4. Courtly Love – amor courtois – Gaston Paris

See Larry Benson’s article

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/love/ben-love.htm

http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/eng251/amourstudy.htm

Troubadour, trouvere, minnesinger, dolce stil nuovo – Petrarch amor cortesi

Selected Lyrics in Wilhelm

5. Tristan and Romance

Barron -- handout

Thomas – Anglo-Norman

Marie -- Lais

Andreas the Chaplain --

5. Chrétien de Troyes

Lancelot –

Prologue and epilogue

Religion of adultery or love that just happens to be adulterous

Issues of identify – strange symbolic landscape

Issues of time and space -- magic

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