The Wounded Knight: The Divided Narrator in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
摘要
This chapter turns to two famous medieval romances, Gottfried von Strassburg’s “Tristan” and the anonymous Middle English “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” In both texts we find a tension between conscience and desire, honor and love which is never resolved but which assumes the form of misogynistic aggression.