Antagonists in Courtly Romance? An outline Antagonisten im höfischen Roman? Eine Skizze

2019 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-436
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Lienert
Keyword(s):  
Courtly Romance

No, I’m not… Chaucer? The Arabic motif in Troilus and Criseyde and Pushkin’s ‘The Prophet’ [‘Prorok’]

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-153
Author(s):  
A. A. Shapovalova
Keyword(s):  
Direct Contact ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
Troilus And Criseyde ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Common Motif ◽  
Courtly Romance ◽  
Genetic Source ◽  
The Common

The article discusses two works of literature: Troilus and Criseyde, a long poem written in the genre of courtly romance (1382–1386/1387) by G. Chaucer, and ‘The Prophet’ [‘Prorok’] (1826), a poem by A. Pushkin. The two works are compared due to a common motif: the opening of the chest and swapping of the heart as a sign of the person’s spiritual regeneration. In her comparative analysis of the two poems, the author attempts to identify their common source or the likelihood of direct contact — whether Pushkin had come across Chaucer’s work and borrowed the motif directly. As for the heart being replaced, it seems both poets may have been inspired by several biblical stories. Further analysis of the motif of the chest being opened suggests that the research should focus on the Arabic tradition alone and take into account the potential influence of Islamic religious texts on Pushkin as well as Chaucer. Relying on the available data about Russian and European relations with the Arabic world, the article hypothesises about the ways in which the motif in question could have reached each of the poets. The author names the Quran as the common genetic source of the two poems.

IRONY AND THE RISE OF COURTLY ROMANCE*

1981 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Courtly Romance

scholarly journals Between the Normative and the Performative: Sex, Parody, and Other (In)tractable Issues in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Dan Nicolae Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
Courtly Love ◽  
The Other ◽  
Core Motif ◽  
Courtly Romance ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract The article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales discusses human sexuality as a major thematic concern in both its normative and its performative dimension, and sex, an (in)tractable issue throughout the Middle Ages, as a core motif that helps the author to explore the extant tension between the human and the ideal. On the other hand, parody and audience/reader response are important instruments in the medieval poet’s strategy of approaching delicate matters in his pilgrims’ tales, which become readily apparent in the ‘order of play’ in which the tales come. The Miller disrupts the story-telling order because this disruption serves Chaucer’s purpose of questioning the validity of the courtly love concept through a parody of courtly romance, much like the poet’s purported distancing from the heretical views upon human sexuality expressed by the Miller can be decoded as an attempt to restore the balance of power between doctrinal inflexibility and humans’ timeless desire for the natural.

scholarly journals Hate Speech and French Mediaeval Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Miha Pintarič
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Heroic Poetry ◽  
Courtly Romance ◽  
Song Of Roland ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Troubadour Poetry ◽  
Hostile Attitude

Hate speech is spoken or written word which expresses a hostile attitude of a dominating majority towards any kind of minority. The author analyses a few examples of hate speech in literary history and concludes that such a phenomenon is typical of The Song of Roland, whether uttered in a direct way or spoken between the lines. One will expect hate speech in epic and heroic poetry, less in the Troubadour poetry. Yet we come across this awkward characteristic even in their love poetry. To be quite clear, in the poetry of Bernart de Ventadorn. The last part of the article is about the courtly romance. The author concludes that hate speech can only be controlled by love, not any, but the love that makes one a better person, and which the Troubadours called fin’amors.

Abschlussschwäche? Die closure des höfischen Romans zwischen Mediengeschichte und Kulturpoetik

POETICA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 276-311
Author(s):  
Florian Kragl
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Media History ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
Static State ◽  
Courtly Romance ◽  
Cultural Poetics ◽  
Narrative Progression

Abstract The article deals with the closure of the, mostly Middle High German, courtly romance, taking as primary example Heinrich von Veldeke’s Eneide. ‘Courtly closure’ is defined as a slow and tenacious fading of narrative progression, by means of gradually transforming this progression into a virtually static state, namely, the description of an enduring courtly feast. It is argued that this way of bringing a romance or a novel to its end – unusual in the course of European literary history – is motivated by several factors. Amongst these, special attention is paid to media history (episodic narration, recital) and to cultural poetics (didactic qualities of the courtly romance).

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