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[highlyeccentric]

Cheyette and Chickering, all the way through their mammoth paper 'Social Practice and Poetic Play', consistently refer to 'Yvain and Laudine', 'Laudine and Lunette', but 'Yvain/Gawain'. Amusingly, the first time they use this 'Yvain/Gawain' designation is when they declare that 'The lengthy Yvain/Gawian passage seems based on both the compettition and the friendship components of a male-to-male relationship, while 'love' in the rapid reconciliation between Yvain and Laudine seems familiar to us as erotic passion'. (p. 108)

But then they go on to argue that love between Yvain and Laudine is a formal social contract rather than a deep inner whatsit, and discuss how the Yvain/Gawain scene follows the same script of emotions.

I suspect I shouldn't be sniggering at this, but dammit, snigger I shall.