Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly LoveUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1978 - 330 pages Medieval Imagination examines the poetry of courtly love with unprecedented thoroughness. Douglas Kelly offers detailed analyses of numerous works within a historical, conceptual, and artistic framework to establish the underlying concept of Imagination in courtly poetry. He capitalizes the term to underscore its medieval sense: the poet's invention of significant images to represent a certain conception of truth. Imagination, thus, in its metaphorical sense of providing an idea with a suitable representation in an image, permitted an allegory of love in romance and dream vision from the twelfth century on. The techniques employed in Imagination--allegory, personification, metonymy, synecdoche--are analyzed in detail as amplification. In addition to his complete coverage of the better-known poets like Guillaume de Lorris, Machaut, and Froissart, Kelly examines the work of such rarely treated writers as René d'Anjou and Oton de Grandson, as well as the Echecs amoureux and related medieval Latin writings. The concluding chapters including Charles d'Orléans, Chartier, and Christine de Pisan. The later chapters are a rare boon to French scholars in providing a survey of Middle French courtly literature, a little-explored area of scholarship. Kelly's documentation is a fresh and useful contribution to the interpretation of this too-often neglected period.The flower of medieval French culture, the poetry of courtly love, is examined with an unprecedented thoroughness in this work. Douglas Kelly offers detailed analyses of numerous works within a historical, conceptual, and artistic framework. |
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... lover's progress is the debate between Amour and Congnoissance . Congnoissance's service to Reason as well as to the lover is prominent . Congnoissance is active in moral and religious decisions . But she also effects a compromise with Love ...
... lover's progress is the debate between Amour and Congnoissance . Congnoissance's service to Reason as well as to the lover is prominent . Congnoissance is active in moral and religious decisions . But she also effects a compromise with Love ...
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... lover's death . This is certainly a conventional representation . In what seem to be his last moments , the lover sings his complainte to Fortune and Love , whom he holds equally responsible for his plight . Then Esperance appears ...
... lover's death . This is certainly a conventional representation . In what seem to be his last moments , the lover sings his complainte to Fortune and Love , whom he holds equally responsible for his plight . Then Esperance appears ...
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... lover are more chaste , or more nearly chaste , because they are faithful to one love and exclude all others.38 Machaut's words do mean what they say . Love is to rise above desire if the lover is to be happy and virtuous . To wish for ...
... lover are more chaste , or more nearly chaste , because they are faithful to one love and exclude all others.38 Machaut's words do mean what they say . Love is to rise above desire if the lover is to be happy and virtuous . To wish for ...
Table des matières
Rhetoric and Poetry | 3 |
Allegory of Love | 13 |
Imagination | 26 |
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abstract adaptation Alain de Lille Alerion allegory amors amour amplification Andreas Capellanus Arthurian balade Bel Acueil Belle Dame Bestiaires bien Boethius C'est ceste chansons Charles d'Orléans Chartier Chaucer chose Chrétien de Troyes Christine de Pisan conformity Congnoissance context Cortoisie courtly literature courtly love cuer d'amours Dangier desire dits dream Echecs Echecs amoureux Edited Esperance Espinette estre example expression fait Fonteinne amoureuse Froissart garden of Deduit Guillaume de Lorris Guillaume's hope ibid ideal Image imaginatio Imagination intention j'ai Jean de Meun Joli buisson jonece Jugement Behaingne Jugement Navarre lady lady's Livre Love's lover Machaut Matthew of Vendôme medieval Meliador metonymy Meun's narrative Neptisphelé Oiseuse Paris penser Péronne personifications poem poet poetic poetry Prison amoureuse psychomachia Pynoteus qu'il qualities Remede de Fortune Renart René Richart Roman Rondeau Rose semantic sense sentiments song tion tout Venus virelai Voir-Dit vols words writing