Week 4

1. What is a fabula, and in what sense is 'the loathly lady' theme one? (you can google this one...)

2. What does Carter (2003) have to say about Chaucer's 'feminism'? In what sense is the Wyfe of Bath's Tale and in what is it not 'feminist'?

3. What according to Hahn (1995) are some critical issues around The Wedding of Sir Gawain...?

4. What does Hahn identify as its Celtic influences?

5. How do each of the three versions I've given you differ, especially in relation to the choice the knight/king must make?

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Hi guys

Here are week 1/2's questions. Have a crack at them,
Paul


1. What, arguably, are some of the 'residual' features of 'primary orality' (as defined by Ong, 1982) in Voluspa?
2. How does Ong argue secondary orality differs from primary orality?
3. What is the difference between chirography and typography and how does he believe it affects human thought and textuality?
4. How do Old Norse and Old English literary sources such as Voluspa, Beowulf and Volsunga Saga inform The Hobbit according to Glen(1991)?
5. According to Shippey(2000) how do the idological motivations and use of language by many fantasy writers like Tolkien differ from the agenda of Modernism?