Courtly literature : culture and context : selected papers from the 5th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, the Netherlands, 9-16 August, 1986 / edited by Keith Busby and Erik Kooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Courtly Literature Society. Congress (5th : 1986 : Dalfsen, Netherlands)

Contributor:

Busby, Keith.

Kooper, Erik.

Series:

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; v. 25.

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature, 0167-8175 ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Congresses.

Literature, Medieval.

Courtly love in literature--Congresses.

Courtly love in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (637 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The International Courtly Literature Society aims to promote the study of courtly literature, primarily, but not exclusively, of medieval Europe. The 45 articles selected here from the papers presented at the 5th Congress center around three themes: rhetoric and courtly literature, the audience of courtly literature, and courtly literature in a comparative perspective. There are contributions by specialists in Old French Literature on such diverse topics as Adenet le Roi, Rene d'Anjou, Le Bel Inconnu, and 15th-century prose chronicles; by Provencalists on the eternal topic of courtly love; by

Contents:

COURTLY LITERATURE: CULTURE AND CONTEXT; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Addresses of Editors and Authors; Preface; The Bottom Line of Love: A Semiotic Analysis of the Lover,s Position; NOTES; L'effet autobiographique dans la tradition: le Livre du Cuer d'Amours Espris de René d'Anjou; 2. Emprise et déprise des modèles; 3. Vers une théorie des restes; NOTES; The Elaboration of Female Narrative Functions in Erec et Enide; NOTES; Guillaume de Machaut's Voir Dit: The Ideology of Form; NOTES

Un 'Art d'Amour' inédit de la fin du moyen âge: son cadre et ses métaphoresNOTES; Contre la fin'amor? Contre la femme? Une relecture de textes du Moyen Age; NOTES; La double reconnaissance du Castia Gilos de Raimon Vidal de Besalu: réception dela nouvelle provençale; NOTES; Courtoisie et amour courtois dans le Cléomadès d'Adenet le Roi; NOTES; Generic Clash, Reader Response, and the Poetics of the Non-Ending in Le Bel Inconnu; NOTES; Sexual Initiation inthe Woman's-Voice Court Lyric; NOTES; The Magnanimous Sex-Object: Richard the Lionheart in the Medieval German Lyric; NOTES

Author and Audience in the Roman de TroieNOTES; Le vocabulaire courtois dans les Carmina Burana; NOTES; Trojaner end Griechen auf der Pyrenäenhalbinsel zwischen Mittelalter und den Anfängen des Humanismus:die galizische Crónica Troyanaund Juan de Menas Yliada en romance; NOTES; Le Roi Qui Ne Ment and Aristocratic Courtship; NOTES; The Court of Alfonso X in Words and Pictures: TheCantigas; NOTES; L'intertextualité interrompue par l'histoire: le cas des Voeux du Héron; NOTES; Effectsof Clair-Obscurin Le Bel Inconnu; NOTES

Chaucer's Shipman's Tale and Boccaccio's Decameron, VIII, i: Retelling a StoryNOTES; L'emploi des formules d'introduction et de transition stéréotypées dans le Tristano Riccardiano; 1. Le Tristano Riccardiano, le texte le plus ancien d'une version particulière du Tristano en prose; 2. Le technique de l' entrelacement dans le Tristan en prose; 3. Les formules du Tristano Riccardiano; 4. La métrique du récit du Tristano Riccardiano; NOTES; Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory; NOTES; The English Partonope of Blois as Exemplum; NOTES

Whatever happened to Criseyde? Henryson's Testament of CresseidNOTES; L'esprit courtois et le Roman de la Violette; NOTES; Selection and Presentation as Distinctive Characteristics of Mediaeval ArabicCourtly Prose Literature; NOTES; King Arthur in Germany: A Once and Future Tradition; NOTES; Tristrams sagaokÍsöndar-une version christianisée de la branche dite courtoise du 'Tristan'; NOTES; Dante as Readerand Critic of Courtly Literature1; NOTES; Misogyny, Manipulation, and the Female Reader in Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon; I. The Female Audience of Romance

II. La Fière's Vow and Woman's Power in Ipomedon

Notes:

Papers in English, French, and German.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-42455-X

9786613424556

90-272-7803-2