Saint George, Islam, and Regional Audiences in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Saint George, Islam, and Regional Audiences in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》中的圣乔治、伊斯兰教和地区观众
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2010
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Kenneth Hodges
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S. Ng;Kenneth Hodges
在他的故事开始于伊斯兰商人在叙利亚和罗马之间运送故事之前，乔叟的《法律人》为商人们提供了这样一段省略：“你们看了很久，看到了你们的温尼格斯；作为聪明人，你们知道政权的全部地位；你是时尚/传说的宠儿……因此，乔叟注意到，贸易网络传播的不仅是商品，还有故事，乔叟自己也改编并复述了这些故事。如果我们认真对待乔叟的话，我们需要将文学交流的范围扩大到西欧以外。有一部作品可能出乎意料地受到了这种交流的影响，那就是《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》。尽管存在欧洲的类似物和来源，但几十年来一直有迹象表明，这首诗可能存在非欧洲语境。1916年，乔治·莱曼·基特里奇注意到，在许多类似的故事中，超自然的挑战者是黑人或土耳其人。2这些类似的故事将斩首阴谋中的挑战者与种族差异联系起来。1974年，爱丽丝·拉萨特（Alice Lasater）在研究西班牙文学（基督教文学、伊斯兰文学和混合文学）对中世纪英语文学的影响时，注意到西班牙文学与中世纪英语文学之间有广泛的相似之处
Before his tale, which begins with Islamic merchants carrying stories between Syria and Rome, Chaucer’s Man of Law offers this apostrophe to merchants: ‘‘Ye seken lond and see for yowre wynnynges; / As wise folk ye knowen al th’estaat / Of regnes; ye been fadres of tidynges / And tales . . .’’1 Thus Chaucer notes that trading networks spread stories as well as merchandise, stories Chaucer himself appropriates and retells. If we take Chaucer’s remarks seriously, we need to expand the area of literary exchange beyond Western Europe. One work that may have been shaped, unexpectedly, by such exchanges is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Although European analogues and sources for it exist, there have been hints over the decades of possible non-European contexts for the poem. In 1916, George Lyman Kittredge noted that in a number of the analogues the supernatural challenger is black or Turkish.2 These analogues thus link the challenger of the beheading plot to racial otherness. In 1974, Alice Lasater, in her work on the influence of Spanish literature (Christian, Islamic, and hybrid) on Middle English literature, noted extensive parallels between a