Arthuriana, October 1st, 2005
This article turns a queer eye upon Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to suggest that categories are continually elided through the workings of a perverse dynamics whose touchstone is not Gawain and the Green Knight as the title might indicate, but the semi-visible character of Morgan. (GA) Several critics have recently argued that Sir Gawain and The Green Knight deliberately presents a threat to the proper Christian chivalric and masculine subject Gawain in order to resecure conventional gender boundaries and normative ideals. In so doing, what holds is the naturalization of a heterosexual mat...
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