‘Drad was he never’: A re-reading of Sir Gawain Gawain, hero of Arthurian legend and romance. A nephew and loyal supporter of King Arthur, Gawain appeared in the earliest Arthurian literature as a model of knightly perfection, against whom all other knights were measured.The lines...

In Through the Looking Glass both the reader and Alice are transported to Looking-Glass world: a distorted reality in which language loses meaning, identity is fluid and your moves are numbered in an invisible game of chess. Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass is often...