Courtesy and Politeness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A close reading of three selected passages of the Middle English alliterative romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight provides a detailed picture of fictional and fairy-tale manifestations of courtly and polite behaviour in Middle English, a period that imported many new terms of courtesy and polite...
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2014-12-01
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| Series: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/stap.2014.49.issue-3/stap-2015-0007/stap-2015-0007.xml?format=INT |