{"title":"Chivalric Feats and Fiascos: An Approach to a Lower-Division Survey Course","authors":"Charles Wuest","doi":"10.1353/art.2022.0045","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Saying the 'right thing' is often a motif, a diversion, and a matter of life or death in Arthurian literature. This paper offers an approach to teaching chivalric texts that depict sexual violence by considering two narratives—George Saunders's 'My Chivalric Fiasco' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'—that shift stylistic registers as they emphasize various levels of unexamined violence muted or altogether missed by the language of justice. (CW)","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"32 1","pages":"140 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arthuriana","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2022.0045","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Saying the 'right thing' is often a motif, a diversion, and a matter of life or death in Arthurian literature. This paper offers an approach to teaching chivalric texts that depict sexual violence by considering two narratives—George Saunders's 'My Chivalric Fiasco' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'—that shift stylistic registers as they emphasize various levels of unexamined violence muted or altogether missed by the language of justice. (CW)
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Arthuriana publishes peer-reviewed, on-line analytical and bibliographical surveys of various Arthurian subjects. You can access these e-resources through this site. The review and evaluation processes for e-articles is identical to that for the print journal . Once accepted for publication, our surveys are supported and maintained by Professor Alan Lupack at the University of Rochester through the Camelot Project.