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• W1581852014 abstract "Integrating chivalric romance narrative with complicated instances of pre-modern exchange, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight reveals the binding power of pledging one's trawþe and the transformative power of exchanged objects in a gift economy. By reading the Exchange of Blows and the Exchange of Winnings according to the social demands of a gift economy and of a pledged trawþe, this thesis delineates the nature of Gawain's failure to keep word to host. I offer my analysis of gift theory to suggest how the poem reveals the tensions between chivalric pledges of loyalty and nascent capitalist exchanges. R. A. Shoaf demonstrates the presence in the text of an emerging commercial economy, claiming the poem involves the transformation of Gawain into a consumer and into a merchant (3-4). While Gawain behaves as a nascent capitalist, as evident by passive reception of the exchanged items and lack of generosity, the other residents of Hautdesert do not. The workings of gift exchange were first postulated by social anthropologists: Marcel Mauss focused on reciprocity, while Branislaw Malinowski, and later, Annette Weiner, argued that gift exchanges operate in a circular system, with repayment not necessarily directed toward the original donor. The exchanges between Bertilak and Gawain show elements of the requisite reciprocity of Mauss' formulation, yet the presence of Morgan le Fey and Lady Bertilak complicates the exchanges and suggests an economy of circularity. While Geraldine Heng and Sheila Fischer have argued that the women of the text exhibit agency, Morgan initiates the Exchange of Blows and Lady Bertilak gives kisses and the girdle, this project argues that it is the performative presence of the trawþe between Gawain and Bertilak that creates a male bond, ultimately denying the women authority. The trawþe circumscribes Morgan's control and allows for the exchange of Lady Bertilak as an object. Richard Firth Green addresses the late medieval tensions in the semantic definitions of truth, arguing that in an oral society the precise words of the oath bind the speaker and listener by virtue of an inherent performative power (60). While Gawain functions as a self-interested capitalist, keeping the girdle for its value to save life, the chivalric trawþe ensures that failure to adhere to the terms of the agreement results not only in contractual liability but knightly disgrace. Gawain's failure to reciprocate the gift leads to dishonor, for the medieval gift that is not reciprocated would make the recipient dependent on the donor, endangering his honour, freedom and even life (Gurevich 180). In medieval gift systems the values of exchanged objects are determined not only by their function within a competitive game about prestige and power, but also by their identification with the donors themselves. Annette Weiner's articulation of the inalienability of certain objects, the possibility that some objects are kept despite apparent exchange, is useful in explaining the significance of the…" @default.
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• W1581852014 title "The Binding Girdle: TrawÞe and Gift Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" @default.
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