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Courtly Contradictions
Author | : Sarah Kay |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804730792 |
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Where does courtly literature come from? What is the meaning of courtly love? What is the relation between religious and secular culture in the Middle Ages, and why does it matter? This book addresses these questions by way of contradiction, which is central both to medieval logic and to most modern protocols of reading.
The Futures of Medieval French
Author | : Jane Gilbert,Miranda Griffin |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843845959 |
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Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the field.
Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature
Author | : Professor of French Language and Literature Simon Gaunt,Simon Gaunt |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2006-02-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199272075 |
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Examines the association of love and death in medieval French and Occitan courtly literature using an approach informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis and Jacques Derrida. Offers new readings of canonical authors and texts, including Bernart de Ventadorn, Jaufre Rudel, Chrétien de Troyes, Thomas's Tristan, the Prose Lancelot, the Tristan en prose, La Mort le roi Artu, Marie de France, Le Chastelaine de Vergy, Le Castelain deCouci, and Le Roman de la Rose.
What is Literature
Author | : Arthur Gibson |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3039109162 |
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The answer to the question 'what is literature?' has not been found. This is the first book-length attempt to find the answer, by one author, since Sartre in his 1948 book with the same title. The book addresses issues such as: how does literature speak to the world; what is great writing; what is originality; what sorts of truths are there, if any, in creative writing? The book uses hundreds of literary examples, and confronts them with philosophy. The book also explores some big questions about the meaning of life, and sets them against a range of literature. It asks questions like: how does great science relate to literature? The book advances the concept of counter-intuition, as part of the basis for answering the question 'what is literature?' The book is also concerned with practical matters, such as the ways literature is involved with war, corruption, rights, suffering and hope.
Chr tien Continued
Author | : Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2009-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780191565267 |
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Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chrétien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between Chrétien and the verse continuators, this study demonstrates how the patterns and puzzles inscribed in the first author's romance continue to guide his successors, whose additions and reinventions throw new light back on the problems medieval readers and writers found in the mother text: questions about society and the individual; love, gender relations, and family ties; chivalry, violence, and religion; issues of collective authorship and doubled heroes, interpretation, rewriting, and canon formation. However far the continuations appear to wander from the master text, the manuscript tradition supports an implicit claim of oneness extending across the multiplicity of discordant voices combined in a dozen different manuscript compilations, the varying ensembles in which most medieval readers encountered Chrétien's Conte. Indeed, considered as a group the continuators show remarkable fidelity in integrating his romance's key elements, as they respond sympathetically to the dynamic incongruities and paradoxical structure of their model, its desire for and deferral of ending, its non-Aristotelian logic of 'and/both' in which contiguity forces interpretation and further narrative elaboration. Unlike their prose competitors, the verse continuators remain faithful to the dialectical movement inscribed across the interlace of two heroes' intertwined stories, the contradictory yet complementary spirit that propels Chrétien's decentered Conte du Graal.
Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French
Author | : Catherine Léglu |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2018-08-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319906386 |
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Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks. Catherine Léglu explores the narrative’s translation into French in medieval England, examining the multiple versions of the Samson narrative via its many adaptations into verse, prose, visual art and musical. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, this text draws together examples from several genres and media, focusing on the importance of book learning to secular works. In analysing this Biblical narrative, Léglu reveals the importance of the Samson and Delilah story as a point of entry into a fuller understanding of medieval translations and adaptations of the Bible.
Thinking Through Chr tien de Troyes
Author | : Zrinka Stahuljak |
Publsiher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781843842545 |
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This co-written book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship between lyric and romance, between individuality and social conditions, and between psychology and medieval philosophy.
Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness
Author | : International Courtly Literature Society. Congress |
Publsiher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015067712037 |
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A wide overview of court culture in the middle ages.