Overview

"The 45 articles selected here center around three themes: rhetoric and coutly literature, the audience of courtly literature, and courtly literature in a comparative perspective. There are contributions by speci alists 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 Anglicists on Chaucer, Henryson, Malory, and others; by Germanists on Heinrich von Morungen, ""der Schwanritter"", and Walther von der Vogelweide; by Hispanists on ""La Celestina"" and the ""Historia Troiana""; there are also articles on Italian, Dutch, and Scandinavian literature, and two relating to Persian and Arabic courtly texts."

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Author:   Keith Busby ,  Erik Kooper
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   25
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9789027222114

ISBN 10:   9027222118
Pages:   621
Publication Date:   01 January 1990
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Addresses of Editors and Authors; 2. Preface; 3. The Bottom Line of Love: A Semiotic Analysis of the Lover's Position (by Akehurst, F.R.P.); 4. L'effet autobiographique dans la tradition: le Livre du Cuer d'Amours Espris de Rene d'Anjou (by Blanchard, Joel); 5. The Elaboration of Female Narrative Functions in Erec et Enide (by Bossy, Michel-Andre); 6. Guillaume de Machaut's Voir Dit: The Ideology of Form (by Boulton, Maureen); 7. Un 'Art d'Amour' inedit de la fin du moyen-age: son cadre et ses metaphores (by Brook, Leslie C.); 8. Contre la fin'amor ? Contre la femme? une relecture de textes du Moyen Age (by Calin, William); 9. La double reconnaissance du Castia Gilos de Raimon Vidal de Besalu: reception de la nouvelle provencale (by Caluwe, Jean-Michel); 10. Courtoisie et amour courtois dans le Cleomades d'Adenet le Roi (by Colliot, Regine); 11. Generic Clash, Reader Response, and the Poetics of the Non-Ending in Le Bel Inconnu (by de Looze, Laurence); 12. Sexual Initiation in the Woman's-Voice Court Lyric (by Deyermond, Alan); 13. The Magnanimous Sex-Object: Richard the Lionheart in the Medieval German Lyric (by Edwards, Cyril); 14. Author and Audience in the Roman de Troie (by Eley, Penny); 15. Le vocabulaire courtois dans les Carmina Burana (by Gerard-Zai, Marie-Claire); 16. Trojaner und Griechen auf der Pyrenaenhalbinsel zwischen Mittelalter und den Anfangen des Humanismus: die galizische Cronica Troyana und Juan de Menas Yliada en romance (by Gier, Albert); 17. Le Roi Qui Ne Ment and Aristocratic Courtship (by Firth Green, Richard); 18. The Court of Alfonso X in Words and Pictures: The Cantigas (by Greenia, George D.); 19. L'intertextualite interrompue par l'histoire: le cas des Voeux du Heron (by Grigsby, John L.); 20. Effects of Clair-Obscur in Le Bel Inconnu (by Grimbert, Joan Tasker); 21. Chaucer's Shipman's Tale and Boccaccio's Decameron, VIII, i: Retelling a Story (by Hefferman, Carol F.); 22. L'emploi des formules d'introduction et de transition stereotypees dans le Tristano Riccardiano (by Heijkant, Marie-Jose); 23. Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory (by Heng, Geraldine); 24. The English Partonope of Blois as Exemplum (by Ihle, Sandra); 25. Whatever happened to Criseyde? Henryson's Testament of Cresseid (by Johnson, Lesley); 26. L'esprit courtois et le Roman de la Violette (by Keller, Hans-Erich); 27. Selection and Presentation as Distinctive Characteristics of Mediaeval Arabic Courtly Prose Literature (by Kilpatrick, Hilary); 28. King Arthur in Germany: A Once and Future Tradition (by Kimpel, Richard W.); 29. Tristams saga ok Isondar - une version christianisee de la branche dite courtoise du 'Tristan' (by Kjoer, Jonna); 30. Dante as Reader and Critic of Courtly Literature (by Kleinhenz, Christopher); 31. Misogyny, Manipulation, and the Female Reader in Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon (by Krueger, Roberta L.); 32. Loneliness and Obsession in the Songs of Heinrich von Morungen (by Margetts, John); 33. Mutual Love as a Medieval Ideal (by McCash, June Hall); 34. Medieval Persian Panegyric: Ethical Values and Rhetorical Strategies (by Meisami, Julia Scott); 35. Les gouts litteraires d'un bibliophile de la cour de Bourgogne (by Naber, Antoinette); 36. Le peche selon Yseut dans le Tristan de Beroul (by Ollier, Marie-Louise); 37. The Rhetoric of Adaptation: The Middle Dutch and Middle High German Versions of Floire et Blancheflor (by Pratt, Karen); 38. The Jongleur, the Copyist, and the Printer: The Tradition of Chaucer's Wordes unto Adam, His Own Scriveyn (by Scattergood, John); 39. French Songs in Aragon: The Place of Origin of the Chansonnier Chantilly, Musee Conde 564 (by Scully, Terence); 40. Celestina's Courtly Lyrics and James Mabbe's English Translations (by Severin, Dorothy S.); 41. Le public de l'Histoire des seigneurs de Gavre (by Stuip, Rene); 42. The Lyric Insertion: Towards a Functional Model (by Taylor, Jane H.M.); 43. Does Might Make Right? the Schwanritter by Konrad von Wurzburg (by Van D'Elden, Stephanie Cain); 44. Between Court Literature and Civic Rhetoric. Buonaccorso da Montemagno's Controversia de nobilitate (by Vanderjagt, A.J.); 45. The Romance of the Rose and I: Narrative Perspective in the Roman de la Rose and its Two Middle Dutch Adaptations (by van der Poel, Dieuwke); 46. Entre trouveres et Minnesanger: la poesie de Jean Ier, duc de Brabant (by Willaert, Frank); 47. Jean de Werchin, Seneschal de Hainaut: Reader and Writer of Courtly Literature (by Willard, Charity Cannon)

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