week 4: Ywaine and Gawaine - final remarks
I'll devote one more forum to our first text.
I promised we'd be wrapping up the discussion with looking at the differences in the telling of the French and the English version respectively and for that I'll follow the hints raised by your observations in the previous forum.
However, in the session I'd also like to return, in a more comprehensive fashion, to the idea of romance as in a sense an exemplary narrative:
Please consider the following sequence: the concerns raised in the introduction; the presentation of Ywain's failure (what precisely is it?); the presentation of Ywain's "penance" or rehabilitation; the duel between Ywain and Gawain. Does that all add up to a specific "lesson" for you? What would it be?
forum: what is the role assigned to Gawain?