Violent Passions

Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance

T. Adams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

323 Seiten

2005 | 2005 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6294-2 (ISBN)

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This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.

Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.

Introduction * The Problem of Love * The Mad Lovers of the Ovidian Lais * Marriage and Amor * The Roman d'Eneas and the Erotics of Empire Building * "Making Love" in Béroul and Thomas's Tristan * The Magister Amoris and his Willful Lovers: Cligés and the Chevalier de la Charrete * Conclusion * Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.9.2005
Reihe/Serie	Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
Zusatzinfo	XII, 323 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4039-6294-4 / 1403962944
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-6294-2 / 9781403962942
Zustand	Neuware