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- <p>Arthurian romances<strong> -- </strong>Criticism, Textual.</p> <p>Malory, Thomas,<strong> </strong>Sir,<strong> </strong>active 15th century.<strong> </strong>Morte d’Arthur -- Criticism, Textual.</p> <p>Gottfried,<strong> </strong>von Strassburg,<strong> </strong>active 13th century.<strong> </strong>Tristan -- Criticism, Textual.</p> <p>Gender in literature.</p> (1)
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Scandalous Deception In The Castle: An Examination Of The Gender Performance Through The Bedtrick Trope In Arthurian Literature, Abby Louise Daniel
Scandalous Deception In The Castle: An Examination Of The Gender Performance Through The Bedtrick Trope In Arthurian Literature, Abby Louise Daniel
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The bedtrick – mistaken identity in a sexual encounter – is a comic motif employed by medieval, renaissance and modern storytellers. While modern readers tend to recognize this motif as (at best) a disturbing sexual escapade and (at worst) rape, the scholarship on mistaken identity in medieval literature still generally glosses over the bedtrick as a moment of comedy. My thesis examines the literary trope of the bedtrick through the critical lens of Judith Butler’s performativity theory, and the motives behind this form of deception and the modern implications. Furthermore, the bedtrick trope is explored in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur …
Terror, Hospitality And The Gift Of Death In Morrison’S Beloved, Puspa Damai
Terror, Hospitality And The Gift Of Death In Morrison’S Beloved, Puspa Damai
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The “us versus them” narrative still pre-dominates the analysis of terrorism in the West, which invariably associates “them” with terrorism. Toni Morrison’s hauntingly memorable novel – Beloved – provides a radically different and historically grounded view of terror and terrorism in the West. The novel not only releases us from the “us versus them” paradigm by demonstrating America’s intimacy with terror, it also enables us to examine terror and terrorism from the perspective of a gendered and ethnic subject who subverts the easy categorization of “us” and “them” or civilized and terrorist. Following Jacques Derrida’s contemplations on death and terror, …