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Living death in medieval French and English literature /
"Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deaths. Jane Gilbert's original study examines the ways in which certain medieval literary text...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
84. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on translations
- Introduction: living death
- Life and death
- Entre-deux-morts
- Death and the work of art
- Lacanian ethics and politics
- Antigone
- Antigone's drive
- Antigone's desire
- A medieval antigone?
- The structure of this book
- Chapter 1 Roland and the second death
- Death drive and life cycle
- Roland between two deaths: the assonanced chanson de roland
- Assonance and rhyme
- The sublime object of ideology
- Chapter 2 The knight as Thing: courtly love in the non-cyclic prose Lancelot
- The non-cyclic prose lancelot
- 'Courtly love and its discontents
- Lancelot and guinevere: lacanian courtly lovers?
- Courtly love ethics
- Galehot
- The knight as thing
- Lamour chevaleresque en anamorphose
- Chapter 3 The ubi sunt topos in Middle French: sad stories of the death of kings
- Imagining sovereignty
- 'Je suis mort
- Dead man talking: villon's 'ballades du temps jadis
- The 'ballade des dames
- The 'ballade des seigneurs
- The 'ballade en vieil langage fran231;ois
- Chapter 4 Ceci nest pas une marguerite: anamorphosis in Pearl
- The narrative
- Anamorphosis
- Pearl as anamorphosis
- Looking awry: heaven versus earth
- Heavenly reason: heaven plus earth
- Pearls and daisies
- Arts of mourning
- Marguerites
- Desiring marguerites
- Full circle?
- Chapter 5 Becoming woman in Chaucer: on ne nat pas femme, on le devient en mourant
- Double obsequies
- Book of the duchess
- Legend of good women
- The revenant
- Repetition
- Conclusion: living dead or dead-in-life?
- Notes
- Introduction: living death
- 1. Roland and the second death
- 2. The knight as thing: courtly love in the non-cyclic prose lancelot
- 3. The ubi sunt topos in middle french: sad stories of the death of kings
- 4. Ceci nest pas une marguerite: anamorphosis in pearl
- 5. Becoming woman in chaucer: on ne na26;305;t pas femme, 10;on le devient en mourant
- Conclusion: living dead or dead-in-life?
- Bibliography
- Primary works and translations
- Reference works
- Secondary works
- Index.