Chrétien de TroyesTwayne Publishers, 1995 - 169 páginas In Chretien de Troyes Revisited, author Karl D. Uitti at last places Chretien in context, offering a strong sense of the author's identity and the milieu in which he lived and wrote. Uitti's 30 years of work on the subject pay handsome dividends for the reader, as we view Chretien - likely for the first timeoutside of a vacuum. Uitti locates Chretien within the theological and philosophical setting of his time; views him as a worker-craftsman who produced stories on demand for his patron; depicts him as a clerc, that is, a learned man who took possession of the literary heritage coming down from Greece and Rome, thus becoming a successor to Virgil and Ovid; establishes a link between the "joining" of Heloise and Abelard and the numerous couples depicted in Chretien's romances; and argues persuasively that he advanced the French language to new heights through his work. This beautifully written book, born out of exhaustive research and informed study, covers the five major romances in octosyllabic rhyming couplets that may with certainty be ascribed to Chretien de Troyes, and touches upon a few minor works that have been attributed to him. In what is undeniably the definitive study on this subject. Uitti breaks new ground at nearly every level. He shows how Chretien explored two principal issues that serve to structure every one of his romances: the development of the young man into adulthood, and the problems of the couple. In each of his works, Chretien builds on these elements, developing the themes in a series of adventures undergone by a number of successful couples, and virtually singing the praises of marriage. So too does Uitti provide a new perspective through his carefulintertextual reading of Le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain) and Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot), arguing that together they constitute a "super romance". When we read them together, Uitti suggests, we see that one of the subjects being treated is the writing of the romance itself. Finally, Uitti establishes startling and vital links between the Conte du Graal (Perceval) and all the works preceding it, as well as between Chretien and other literature - both Latin and vernacular - of the Middle Ages (especially Tristan et Iseult, which exerted a powerful effect on the social elites of the day, and which, in Chretien's view, glorified destructive passions). This contextualization of Chretien furnishes not only marvelous insight into the subject matter, but also a rare glimpse of scholarly work in its most inspiring guise. |
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... entire narrative is given over to hyperbole , at times even humorously , though never at the expense of our admiration for its hero . Lancelot seems to be moving within the walls of a City of Ladies , and his function is to sustain that ...
... entire narrative is given over to hyperbole , at times even humorously , though never at the expense of our admiration for its hero . Lancelot seems to be moving within the walls of a City of Ladies , and his function is to sustain that ...
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... entire retinue leave Carlion to go in search of the mysterious knight who has sent so many vanquished opponents to the court . They set up camp in a field . Early the next morning snow covers the area . Perceval is nearby . As he rides ...
... entire retinue leave Carlion to go in search of the mysterious knight who has sent so many vanquished opponents to the court . They set up camp in a field . Early the next morning snow covers the area . Perceval is nearby . As he rides ...
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... twentieth - century scholars . It is true that Chrétien's entire œuvre betrays a virtual obsession with aspects of the Tristan story , but that very fact , it would seem , militates against his having composed a 137 Notes and References.
... twentieth - century scholars . It is true that Chrétien's entire œuvre betrays a virtual obsession with aspects of the Tristan story , but that very fact , it would seem , militates against his having composed a 137 Notes and References.
Contenido
Chapter | 17 |
Chapter Three | 35 |
Chapter Four | 53 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abelard adventures Alexis Alixandre antancïon Arthur's court Arthurian Arthurian world beautiful bele Blancheflor Calogrenant castle Celtic chansons chansons de geste Charrette Lancelot Chevalier au Lion chivalry Chrétien de Troyes Chrétien de Troyes's Chrétien's romances clerc clerkly Cligés Cligés's composed conjoined conjointure constitutes Conte du Graal Count Countess Marie courtly courtoisie Crestïens damsel death Énéas Énéas's episode Érec et Énide Érec's Fénice Frappier Gauvain Godefroi de Leigni Gornemant Graal Perceval Grail Guenevere's Heloise hereafter cited Hermit King Arthur knightly ladies Lanzelet Latin Laudine Laudine's learning Lion Knight Lion Yvain literary lovers Lunete lyric maiden Male Pucele Marie de Champagne Marie de France marriage Martianus Martianus's matter Meanwhile medieval Méléagant narrator noble Nuptiis œuvre Old French Ovid Paris Perceval's Philomena poem poetic potion prologue Queen Guenevere Roman d'Énéas romance narrative scholars song spiritual tion translatio translation Tristan and Iseut twelfth century vernacular Wace woman young Yvain