Medievalists, tell me if this makes any sense: I am wondering if I can do a queer reading of both Sir Launfal and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, drawing on Eve Sedgewicks ideas of homosociality, and looking at Tryamore-Launfal-Gwenerre as love conflict (between women) that allows for homosocial engagement, and Morgan le Fay-Gawain/Arthur-Guinevere as the same thing. So seeing the poems as inverting the expected Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot love triangle that allows for male homosocial contact? Can I make that a whole paper? I feel like I might be able to, because I can tie it to the opposition between Guinevere and Morgan le Fay (Guinevere representing good Christian femininity and Morgan representing bad unChristian femininity) and also Tryamour and Gwenerre (Tryamour as a much more complicated good Christian femininity and Gwenerre as bad unChristian femininity). And I think maybe I can argue that this conflict between Christian and unChristian femininity is entangled with the homosocial female relationships that the love/honour triangles enable, because Christianity was struggling with how to reconcile pagan elements, and theres a whole sense of tension over sin (as evidenced in Adam lay ibounden). Anyway. Thoughts? El Sidney Cunningham, Julia Sitter?
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:39:21 +0000
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