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A structural study of the English Gawain romances

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  1. William Benzon, in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Semiotics of Ontology,” deals with the ritual structure of ontological transitions in the plot and touches on some of the same issues discussed in the third part of my essay.Semiotica, 21 (1977), 267–93.

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  3. For an attempt to formalize “motifeme,” “type-scene,” and “type-episode” structural units in a group of non-Arthurian, non-cyclic Middle English narratives, see Susan Wittig,Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978).

  4. Full bibliographic description of the Gawain manuscripts as well as background information can be found in Helaine Newstead's “Arthurian Legends,”A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050–1500, ed. J. Burke Severs (New Haven: The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967), I, 238–49.

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  6. Jessie Weston,From Ritual to Romance (1920; rpt. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957), pp. 108–109.

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  7. Elizabeth Brewer,From Cuchulain to Gawain (Towota, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1973).

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Machann, C. A structural study of the English Gawain romances. Neophilologus 66, 629–637 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01956508

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