![]() Not only is "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" central to the plot of the story, but your book itself is a kind of medieval romance. In a sense, "The Thorn and the Blossom" is a novella that incorporates a romance. The word romance used to refer to that sort of story, with knights and adventures, rather than a love story, which is the way we use it now. The older literary form was the romance, in which fantastical occurrences were common. People often don't realize this nowadays, but the novel is a relatively recent development, dating only to the 17th century. "Sir Gawain" is a great story, but it also gives us a glimpse of the medieval world, of how people lived and thought. ![]() The wonderful thing about stories is that they're like time machines. ![]() ![]() It's assumed to be by the same person who wrote a series of religious poems found in the same manuscript, in a dialect very different from the one used by Chaucer in "The Canterbury Tales." Can you explain how that legend figures into the British canon?Ī: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is one of the most important poems we have from that era. ![]() Q: As a former English major myself, I love that this story is centered so much on medieval lit and the "Gawain" story, which I hadn't given much thought to since college. ![]()
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