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  1. Exploring Middle English Romance
  2. 1 thematic characteristics of romance; romance in English 1
  3. week 3: Chrétien and its English redaction - the concerns of romance - continued

week 3: Chrétien and its English redaction - the concerns of romance - continued

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Due: Monday, 14 October 2024, 6:00 PM

The expanded material provides us with the opportunity to further explore, confirm or attune our perceptions of the text which we formed on the basis of the first reading.

To give you a better idea of the "redemptive part" of Ywain's story, I supply it in full in modern English prosaic translation (also because the summary is very selective here).
Selected passages are given in the original with notes and translation, together with parallel passages from Chrétien's source in poetic and prosaic translation

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Choose one incident/passage that you find especially illustrative of the differences in approach between Chrétien and the Middle English adaptation and comment on it briefly.
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I would like to ask each of you to consider how the latter part of the romance stands in relation to the points we debated last week - the various value systems that may define chivalry and that combine in the romance: the ethos of adventure for adventure's sake, the obligations within the male group, the service of love, the social responsibilities; additionally, we could speak of cohesive/divisive tendencies within these categories, though we didn't: revenge for a friend, rivalry with a peer etc. Does the latter part of the romance resolve the tensions we have observed in the first part? Try to argue your stance with one example from the story.

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