Arthur's Two Historiographies in Alliterative Romance

Before I'm overwhelmed by a massive student paper deluge, I thought I'd try to draft my paper for the "Biopolitics" session organized by the Arthurian Literature Discussion Group for the upcoming MLA convention in Los Angeles held during the first week in January.  As I was working my way through this, I realized how HELish it really is (hopefully without the second "l"!).  My reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in particular, explores the meanings and histories of enigmatic words in the prologue such as "winn" (could mean "strife" or "joy") and "depreced" (could mean "conquer" or "release").  If you have any suggestions or comments I would love to read them.  

Arthurian Fan Fiction

Knight Reading in Bed, Bruce Linn 2003
(The Crying Globe)

I hope you won't mind if I share yet another piece of my recent thinking and writing, particularly about my teaching.  Next week I will be presenting this material with a few of my Arthurian Literature students to a group of new faculty at UMB and I would love to hear your thoughts.  It isn't focused directly on HEL, but it certainly is informed by a new and controversial genre of digital English, fan fiction, which is a rapidly expanding catalogue of literary works on the internet.  The writing below (which is just a draft - with obvious gaps), and the assignment it describes, was inspired by the following question: what happens when students don't just analyze texts, as third person observers, and instead inhabit them and write from the points of view of Arthurian figures?