Emotions in Medieval Arthurian literature : body, mind, voice / edited by Frank Brandsma, Carolyne Larrington and Corinne Saunders.

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English
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Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer, 2015.
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210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which heard these texts performed or read. The presentation and depiction of emotion in the single most prominent and influential story matter of the Middle Ages, the Arthurian legend, is the subject of this volume. Covering texts written in English, French, Dutch, German, Latin and Norwegian, the essays presented here explore notions of embodiment, the affective quality of the construction of mind, and the intermediary role of the voice as both an embodied and consciously articulating emotion.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index.
    Contents
    • Being-in-the-Arthurian-world : emotion, affect and magic in the prose Lancelot, Sartre and Jay / Jane Gilbert
    • Mind, body and affect in Medieval English Arthurian romance / Corinne Saunders
    • "What cheer?" : emotion and action in the Arthurian world / Andrew Lynch
    • Ire, Peor and their somatic correlates in Chrétien's Chevalier de la charette / Anatole Pierre Fuksas
    • Kingship and the intimacy of grief in the alliterative Morte Arthure / Anne Baden-Daintree
    • Tears and lies : emotions and the ideals of Malory's Arthurian world / Raluca L. Radulescu
    • Mourning Gawein : cognition and affect in Diu crône and some French Gauvain-texts / Carolyne Larrington
    • Emotion and voice : "ay" in Middle Dutch Arthurian romances / Frank Brandsma
    • Translating emotion : vocalisation and embodiment in Yvain and Ívens saga / Sif Rikhardsdottir
    • Afterword: Malory's enigmatic smiles / Helen Cooper.
    ISBN
    • 9781843844211 ((hardback : acid-free paper))
    • 1843844214
    LCCN
    2015373954
    OCLC
    917364448
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