[PDF] The Ethical Structure Of Courtly Romance eBook

Author : Vladimir R. Rossman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110821117

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No detailed description available for "Perspectives of Irony on Medieval French Literature".

Author : Saviour John Stellini
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Love in literature
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From his very early literary years, Chaucer realised that the courtly convention could serve his genius both structurally and thematically. The courtly characteristics which Chaucer borrowed mainly from the French are used to function structurally not only in those poems dealing exclusively with a study of the courtly code, but, as will be discussed in chapter I, also in certain dream-visions that have a non-courtly theme. The primary interest -- hence the main emphasis in this essay - in a study of Chaucer's treatment of the ethic of courtly love lies, however, with the poet's examination of its nature and its values. Chaucer was well aware that this highly refined religion of love could only exist as a hypothetical ideal, and that from the practical as well as from the moral point of view it was always doomed. By contrasting it with other forms of love, Chaucer consistently exposed the weaknesses of courtly love: as will be explained in Chapter II, Chaucer objectively places courtly love in the perspective of natural love; later on, as will be discussed in Chapter III, Chaucer first implicitly contrasts courtly love with Christian love and then goes on explicitly to condemn it as being detri¬ mental to man's spiritual duties. After initially exposing its limitations and eventually condemning it, Chaucer attempted to offer a practical solution by blending the courtly and the marital systems of love. The development of this idea will be presented in the final chapter.

Author : Laurence S. Lockridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1989-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521352568

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Laurence Lockridge argues that a focus on the ethical dimension of literature is the single most powerful strategy for structuring a writer's work as a whole, and that it can even prove congenial. He gives original, interrelated readings of eight major British Romantic writers.

Author : L. O. Aranye Fradenburg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
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ISBN : 9781452904962

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Sacrifice Your Love develops the idea that sacrifice is a mode of enjoyment--that our willingness to sacrifice our desire is actually a way of pursuing it. Fradenburg considers the implications of this idea for various problems important in medieval studies today and beyond.

Author : Michelle Reichert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135501602

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Chrétien de Troyes uses repeated references to Spain throughout his romances; despite past suggestions that they contain Mozarabic and Islamic themes and motifs, these references have never been commented upon. The book will demonstrate that these allusions to Spain occur at key moments in the romances, and are often coupled with linguistic riddles which serve as roadmaps to the manner in which the romances are to be read. These references and riddles seem to support the idea that some of their themes and motifs in Chrétien's romances are of Andalusi origin. The book also analyzes Chrétien's notion of conjointure and shows it to be the intentional elaboration of a sort of Mischliteratur , which integrates Islamic and Jewish themes and motifs, as well as mystical alchemical symbolism, into the standard religious and literary canons of his time. The contrast afforded by Chrétien's use of irony, and his subtle integration of this matière d'Orient into the standard canon, constitutes a carefully veiled criticism of the social and moral conduct, as well as spiritual beliefs, of twelfth-century Christian society, the crusading mentality, chivalric mores, and even the notion of courtly love . The primary interest of the book lies in the fact that it will be the first to comment upon and analyze Chrétien's references to Spain and the rich matière d'Orient in his romances, while suggesting channels for its transmission, through scholars, merchants, and religious houses, from northern Spain to Champagne.