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‘Under a holte so hore’: Noble Waste in The Awntyrs off Arthure
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2018
- pp. 3-24
- 10.1353/art.2018.0033
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
This article engages ecocriticsm and discard studies to argue that the excessive behaviors of the aristocracy in The Awntyrs off Arthure precipitate material and metaphorical waste. Their wastefulness, through overuse and erasure of surrounding ‘natureculture,’ exposes the unsustainability of the court and, debatably, Arthurian romance as a genre.