Eros and noesis :: a cognitive approach to the courtly love literature of medieval France /

"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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1. Verfasser: Monson, Don Alfred (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.
Schriftenreihe:Faux titre ; no. 455.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004504494
9789004504493
ISSN:0167-9392 ;