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ISBN:
9781846155345
Content:
Why should a supposedly Biblical relic lay down its literary roots in medieval French literature? This study of the Holy Grail, drawing on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, argues that the Grail should be read as a symptom of disruption and obscurity rather than fulfilment and revelation. The Holy Grail made its first literary appearance in the work of the twelfth-century French poet, Chrétien de Troyes, and continues to fascinate authors and audiences alike. This study, supported by a theoretical framework based on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, aims to strip the legend of much of the mythological and folkloric association that it has acquired over the centuries, arguing that the Grail should be read as a symptom of disruption and obscurity rather than fulfilment and revelation. Focusing on two thirteenth-century Arthurian prose romances, 'La Queste del Saint Graal' and 'Perlesvaus', and drawing extensively on the wider field of Old French Grail literature including the works of Chrétien and Robert de Boron, the book examines the personal, social and textual effects produced by encounters with the Grail in order to suggest that the Grail itself is instrumental not only in creating but also in disturbing, the discursive, psychic and cultural bonds that are represented in this complex and captivating literary tradition. BEN RAMM is Research Fellow in French, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
Content:
Tant sainte chose : for a new discourse of the grail -- This is not the one : identity, abjection, and méconnaissance in the Perlesvaus -- Falling out with God : the discursive inconsistency of La queste del saint graal -- Remissio peccatorum : relocating the sins of the grail hero -- Dead to the world : dreaming of life and death on the quest of the Holy Grail -- "Si avoit son tens trespassé" : the final sacrifice of the grail hero?
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843841098
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781843841098
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Artusepik
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Gral
;
Queste del Saint Graal
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Perlesvaus
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