UID:
almafu_9961565909702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9789004504493
Serie:
Faux Titre Series ; Volume 455
Inhalt:
"This is the first study to apply the results of modern cognitive science to medieval love literature. Covering the entire corpus of Occitan, French and Latin love literature of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France, it explores the universal and the culturally specific in medieval poetic attitudes towards love, the cognitive structure of the love themes, and the cognitive basis for the system of courtly genres. It proposes a cognitive taxonomy of courtly literature based on three "hyper-genres": the lyric as the basic mode for the expression of love, with courtly narrative and didactic literature arising through a process of amplification of the courtly themes. It also includes anti-courtly satire, which applies to courtly idealism an innate human propensity for detecting cheating"--
Anmerkung:
Introduction --
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: A. Monson, Don Eros and Noesis Boston : BRILL,c2022 ISBN 9789004504486
Sprache:
Englisch
