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Medievalist @livuni : Masculine anxieties, abject theology and concepts of horror in ME Poetry | Chronically Ill/Illin' | He/Him Black Lives Matter

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    1. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      Plus, it takes place in an imagined past. A giant green dude is gonna get straight decapitated and be totally fine- anyone bleating about some sort of bullshit white fantasyland historical accuracy needs to fucking not.

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    2. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      Okay. So. The Poster. First up. Who is the figure?! They're wearing a crown, so I'd guess it would be Arthur. BUT LOOK AT THAT BEARD. In the poem, the GK specifically calls out Arthur and his courtiers for being beardless children. THIS IS A GRITTY HAIRY HAIRY REBOOT

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    3. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      The poster is also red. Not green. This isn't Sir Gawain and the friggin Red Knight is it?! So it must be someone else. The crown suggests Arthur, but the poem and the MS illustrations both have Gawain dressed in red. Probably nothing, but still, fun detail.

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    4. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      See how red he is?! But also, in this picture he has old man hair, so, pinch of salt.pic.twitter.com/ownObRyIO1

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    5. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      Next up: What the everloving FUCK is that thing on [Arthur's?!] head? It looks like the figure has their back to us so the angle could be a halo/nimbus. I'm not an expert in armour but I'm pretty sure there's no examples of this medieval raiments.

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    6. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      It MIGHT symbolise the circular girdle which becomes central to the plot, but that was green cloth. Alternately it might be the symbolic material Camelot adopts after G's adventure is over (sometimes hypothesised as being related to Edward III's Order of the Garter)

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    7. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      I (and others) have written in the past on the Christ imagery in the poem and how the GK acts as a sort of Christ figure in an allegorical sense. I am 99.99999999% sure the dude who made this poster did not read my Masters dissertation, so it's probably not that.

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    8. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      Okay! Moving on. The words- When hono(u)r was everything. I quite like this as a lot of SGGK is about one man trying to hold himself to an unattainable standard of honour (the chivalric code) and failing because he's only human. This is interesting because....

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    9. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      SGGK is often described as an anti-romance, since the poem seems to point to the failures & the futility of chivalry & performative 'honour'. The poet is cheeky too. He tells us loads of exciting things happen to Gawain on his quest, but that hes wont bore us with the details!

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    10. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      So... honour might be considered important in chivalric culture, but SGGK isn't about celebrating that, its about lampooning it. And what's this guff about kings?!

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      Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

      When courage made kings? No mate, kings made kings. Or rather, the system of primageniture hereditary monarchy made kings. Being king wasn't like going to the dentist and getting one of those 'I was brave' stickers.

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        2. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

          Actually no wait. In the Arthurian canon, Arthur is made king after he pulls a sword from a stone & he keeps hold of that power by waging a brutal campaign of conquest and bloodshed across Europe. So really, the tagline should be When swords and rabid imperialism made kings

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        3. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

          And can we talk about the font? That looks like some Blackletter-ass lettering to me. But the poem wasn't written in that! The BL informs me that it was written in gothic cursive with anglicana features. Just doesn't have the same ease of reading, does it?pic.twitter.com/mliWJc4yU4

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        4. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

          But perhaps the most upsetting thing about the whole deal is this summer NO. SGGK IS A CHRISTMAS STORY LIKE ELF OR DIE HARD. All the good bits take place in that weird gap between Xmas and New Year. They could release it then & give resentful families something to dream of

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        5. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

          In all seriousness though, I'm interested to see what they do with this. @A24 is a great production company and SGGK is, for my money, one of the greatest works of English Literature. And by God, its going to be better than the fucking Sean Connery version, isn't it?

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        6. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

          P.S. Since this is a poem rooted in the landscape of the North West, I hope there's at least some scouse peasants in it who like, try to rob Gawain's horseshoes or something.

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        7. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

          P.P.S The poster really reminds me of @ImageComics Headlopper series, which is daft and dead good. It wears its Beowulf influences on its sleeve, but its doing other cool stuff too. Go read that.pic.twitter.com/ppl3iFg3o1

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        8. Matt‏ @NobodyLikedThat 12 Feb 2020

          P.P.P.S THEY'RE NOT MAKING ANY FUCKING COOL ASS VERSIONS OF CHAUCER ARE THEY? DONT SEE ANY BOOK OF THE DUCHESS 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO COMING TO THEATRES SOON

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        1. Lawrence Harding‏ @lhardingwrites 12 Feb 2020
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          In fairness, SGGK is set in a hauntological neverwhen, so ideas of accuracy kind of go out the window when it comes to accurate criteria for kings.

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        1. Dr Jo Edge #StopSIM #BoycottLeicester‏ @hagenilda 13 Feb 2020
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          Looool

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