Monsieur Gawain and the Green Knight and the Romantic ConventionsIn Yvain by Chrétien de Troyes, Calogrenant recounts his “adventure” in Brocéliande. In a forest he meets a monstrous shepherd who asks him who Calogrenant is: "'I am, as you see, a knight who is looking for something that I cannot find: I have searched for a long time and I find nothing.' – 'And what would you like to find? – “An adventure, to test my prowess and my courage. As John Stevens observes, these lines "could serve almost as a classic definition of chivalric romance." The first part of Calogrenant's response could have come from Gawain's mouth in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as he seeks the Green Chapel to fulfill his pact with the Green Knight. However, this last part, although applicable to Gawain's situation - Gawain's "adventure" actually serves to put his virtue "to the test" -, demonstrates a divergence between Gawain's "adventure" and that of Gawain. of the conventional romance hero. In the equivalent point of Gawain's "adventure", when he travels in search of the Green Chapel, he asks those he meets for directions: a green knyȝt,In any terrain, from the chapel of grene;And all the Nykké hymns with no,...(ll. 703-6)Rather than the situation of the stereotypical romantic hero, who desires an "adventure" but must ask those around him to provide one through localized events, Gawain is in the opposite situation of knowing his quest but not being able to find where it is, and has no one who can tell him. This is further demonstrated by how his encounters during this search, which are the events that would constitute a conventional adventure, only take place in the middle of paper...... and The Green Knight (1965) ELISABETH BREWER , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Sources and Analogues (1992)DEREK BREWER & JONATHAN GIBSON (eds.), A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (1997)HELEN COOPER, The English Romance in Time (2004)JOHN FINLAYSON, 'Definitions of Middle English Romance”, The Chaucer Review vol. 15 no. 1 (1980), pp. 44-62ROBERTA L. KREUGER (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (2000)JILL MANN, 'Sir Gawain and the Romance Hero', Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature (1994), pp. 105-17DEREK PEARSALL, Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction (2003)MICHAEL ROBERTSON, “Stanzaic Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Speculum vol. 57 no. 4 (1982), pp. 779-85JOHN STEVENS, Medieval Romance (1973)JOAN TURVILLE-PETRE, 'The Meter of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', English Studies vol. 57 no. 4 (1976), pages. 310-28