英文摘要 |
This article examines the well-noted gender subversion in the famousBedroom Scenes in the Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.In line with previous gender studies of this poem, it argues for Gawain’s feminizedand queered body, but departs from them by analyzing the scenes froma visually stimulating perspective achieved by means of examining Gawain’simages in Courtly Love literature, objects, and iconographical tradi-tions.Through a close textual reading, this paper shows how the Gawain-poet, withhis playful puns and verbal allusions to contemporary trousse de toilette forwomen, vividly represents the cat-and-mouse game between Lady Bertilak andGawain, to crystalize the knight’s “contained” body, and the poem’s fetishisticand iconoclastic sentiments detectable through the subverted gender relation. |