Violent Passions - Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance

Zusatztext "[Adam's] attempt to locate these romantic explorations of amor within the 12th-century's fascination with problematic love is laudable and instructive." - Encomia Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of contents

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

Report

"[Adam's] attempt to locate these romantic explorations of amor within the 12th-century's fascination with problematic love is laudable and instructive." - Encomia

Product details

• Authors: T Adams, T. Adams
• Assisted by: Kenneth A Loparo (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor), Bonni Wheeler (Editor), Bonnie Wheeler (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2005
• EAN: 9781349527199
• ISBN: 978-1-349-52719-9
• No. of pages: 335
• Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures; Studies in Arthurian and Court; Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Europa, B, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, bibliography;building;empire;French;love;novel;perception