Eros and Noesis : : A Cognitive Approach to the Courtly Love Literature of Medieval France / / Don A. Monson.
"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 atti...
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| Superior document: | Faux Titre Series ; Volume 455 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
Volume 455. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Love problems : courtly literature, genre theory. The problem of "courtly love" : in search of a new paradigm ; Medieval poetic love : biological universality and cultural specificity ; Cognition and genre theory : the system of the courtly genres ; The psycho-dynamics of love : parsing the courtly themes
- Love's discourse : a cognitive taxonomy of the courtly genres. Love song : courtly themes in a lyric mode ; Love story : courtly themes in a narrative mode ; Love lesson : courtly themes in a didactic mode ; Love mocked : courtly themes in a satirical mode ; Conclusion.