Troubling Arthurian Histories

Court Culture, Performance and Scandal in Chretien De Troyes's Erec Et Enide

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James R. Simpson

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Medieval and Early Modern French Studies

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Drawing on a range of approaches in cultural, gender and literary studies, this book presents Chr�tien de Troyes's Erec et Enide as a daring and playful exploration of scandal, terror and anxiety in court cultures. Through an interdisciplinary reading, it locates Erec et Enide, the first surviving Arthurian romance in French, in various contexts, from broad cultural and historical questionings such as medieval vernacular 'modernity's' engagement with the weight of its classical inheritance, to the culturally fecund and politically turbulent histories of the families of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet. Where previous accounts of the tale have not uncommonly presented Chr�tien's poem as a decorous 'resolution' of tensions between dynastic marriage and fin'amors, between personal desire and social duty, this reading sees these forces as in permanent and irresolvable tension, the poem's key scenes haunted - whether mischievously or traumatically - by questions and skeletons from various closets.

Author Biography:

The Author: James R. Simpson is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Fantasy, Identity and Misrecognition in Medieval French Narrative.

Release date Australia

December 6th, 2007

Author

James R. Simpson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

520

Series

Medieval and Early Modern French Studies

ISBN-13

9783039113859

Product ID

7587911

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