Violence in medieval courtly literature : a casebook /

Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were rejected, mistrust ruled, rape was a rampant pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Classen, Albrecht
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Medieval casebooks.
Temas:
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Violence dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature, Medieval.
Höfische Literatur
Gewalt > Motiv
Literatur
Letterkunde.
Geweld.
Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Authority, violence, and the sacred at the medieval court / Leo D. Lefebure
  • 2. Brutality and violence in medieval French romance and its consequences / Raymond Cormier
  • 3. Turnus in Veldeke's Eneide : the effects of violence / William C. McDonald
  • 4. Violence and pain at the court : comparing violence in German heroic and courtly epics / Scott E. Pincikowski
  • 5. Violence stylized / Siegfried R. Christoph
  • 6. Violence at King Arthur's court : Wolfram von Eschenbach's perspectives / Albrecht Classen
  • 7. Violence in La Queste del Saint Graal and La Mort le roi Artu (Yale 229) / Nancy B. Black
  • 8. Violence and communication in Shota Rustaveli's the lord of the panther-skin / Gijsbertus Koolemans Beynen
  • 9. Constructive and destructive violence in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine / Stacey L. Hahn
  • 10. The violent poetics of inversion, or, The inversion of violent poetics : Meo dei Tolomei, his mother, and the Italian tradition of comic poetry / Fabian Alfie
  • 11. Violent magic in middle English romance / Corinne Saunders
  • 12. Why is middle English romance so violent? : the literary and aesthetic purposes of violence / Jean E. Jost
  • 13. Destruire et disperser : violence and the fragmented body in Christine de Pizan's prose letters / Marcella L. Munson
  • 14. Mimetic crisis in the medieval mass : a sequence for the feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury and its liturgical function, ca. 1230 / Julia Wingo Shinnick
  • 15. Violence in the Spanish chivalric romance / Michael P. Harney.

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