Conclusion

Abstract

Abstract The conclusion to the book points to possibilities for future analysis of canonical English and Welsh literature as marcher literature, offering a reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a preliminary example. Marcher readings of these texts draw out an interest in borders and boundaries, from the borders between reality and the otherworld of dream visions, to the political and linguistic boundaries of the marcher borderlands. In doing so, the conclusion claims canonical works of literature as marcher, destabilizing the Anglo-centric focus of medieval literary studies.