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Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Professor of French Language and Literature Simon Gaunt
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-16 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

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Examines the association of love and death in medieval French and Occitan courtly literature using an approach informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis and Jacques D
Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Simon Gaunt
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-16 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death. Thus the troubadour Jaufre Rudel dies in the arms of the cou
Eros and Noesis
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Don A. Monson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-16 - Publisher: BRILL

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This is the first study to apply some of the results of modern cognitive science to all the major genres of the courtly love literature of medieval France (twel
Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Jane Gilbert
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living fore
Historical Dictionary of French Literature
Language: en
Pages: 627
Authors: John Flower
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-17 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don’t know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into Englis