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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Troyes"”.
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Narrative design and heroic definition in Chretien de Troyes' Erec et Enide
<p>Little is known about Chrétien de Troyes the man. Whatever is said about him as an individual or about the order and date of his writings is entirely a matter of conjecture, for there is virtually no evidence except for the little offered by the poems themselves. While Chrétien's life's history …
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Rape and Male Identity in Arthurian Romance, Chrétien de Troyes to Marion Zimmer Bradley
… modern day. I focus on three works: Chrétien de Troyes Erec et Enide, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. In each, I examine the five functions of troped rape — the establishing of military prowess, the encoded patriotic message, the moral test, …
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Para una antropología de lo imaginario en "Le chevalier de la Charrette" de Chrétien de Troyes
CHRETIEN DE TROYES SE MUESTRA EN "LE CHEVALIER DE LA CHARRETTE" COHERENTE CON LOS PRINCIPIOS MORALES QUE HA DEFENDIDO A LO LARGO DE SUS NOVELAS. SU OPOSICION A LA HISTORIA ENTREGADA POR SU MECENAS, LA CONDESA MARIA DE CHAMPAÑA, NO SOLO ES REAL Y AFECTA A LO MAS PROFUNDO DE SU PSIQUE DESPERTANDO SUS …
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Die Skulptur in Troyes und in der südlichen Champagne zwischen 1480 und 1540 : stilkritische Beobachtungen zum Meister von Chaource und seinem Umkreis
… 1480 und 1540 in den Bildhauerwerkstätten von Troyes und der südlichen Champagne entstandenen Skulpturen. Keine andere Region Frankreichs hat im Zeitraum zwischen dem späten 15. Jahrhundert und der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts, betrachtet man den Bestand der heute noch erhaltenen …
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Behold thy doom is mine: The evolution of Guinevere in the eorks of Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
… <em>The Knight of the Cart</em> by Chrétien de Troyes, <em>Le Morte d’Arthur</em> by Sir Thomas Malory, and <em>The Idylls of the King</em> by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In addition, this thesis has drawn upon literary criticism, including that of Maureen Fries and Norris J. Lacy, in proving how …
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"Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristan in the Old French ""Le Chevalier De La Charette"" and the Old Icelandic ""Saga Af Tristram Ok Isodd"
… places in the medieval canon, Chretien de Troyes' Le Chevalier de la Charette and the Old Icelandic Saga af Tristram ok Isodd. Both of these texts are responses to the Old French Tristan romance and both deny the sexual ambiguity of the Tristan figure by reconfiguring the equation of male …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
… consensus that when translating Chretien de Troyes’ romance of the glorious King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, in his <em>Le Morte Darthur</em>, approaches the narrative of Sir Lancelot with the unwavering attitude that Lancelot must not only sustain the status of Arthur’s most revered knight …
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Poética de la busca en la literatura medieval francesa
… celta, griega y latina, como las de Chrétien de Troyes: el Conte del Graal y el Chevalier de la Charrette. El roman de Busca medieval produce una cierta fascinación y encantamiento, por su inextricable red de significados, por la belleza de su forma y la intensidad de los relatos. Al leer una …
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Activités pilotes pour un programme d'enseignement de l'anglais L2 en FAD en France pour de futurs ingénieurs
À l’Université de Technologie de Troyes, 40% des futurs ingénieurs peinent à graduer, faute de compétence suffisante en anglais, et leur production orale ressort comme la principale faiblesse. Le but de ce projet était de développer des activités d’apprentissage de l’anglais L2 en FAD, qui seraient …
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Madmen and mad money: psychological disability and economics in medieval and early modern literature
… to the chivalric romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Likewise, the early modern texts under scrutiny include Ben Jonson’s city comedies and Shakespeare’s tragic Timon of Athens (1607). The wide-ranging nature of the texts I examine is intended to indicate that the ableist notions being …
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Suspended Endings: The Mechanics of Medieval Continuation in the Perceval Continuations
… some way, the unfinished Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes – though they are not merely responses to his work. Chronologically, they were composed one after the other, and the next in line picks up where the previous left off, thus they respond intertextually to each other as well as to Chrétien, and …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
By investigating three texts, namely Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, Geoffrey Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale", and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I seek to demonstrate how clothing, honour, gender and gifts shape the experiences of the characters as they find their social place, and …
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
… from the twelfth century romance of Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain to the fifteenth century dream vision/consolatio Pearl. A focused study of how bereavement is represented through this pattern gains us a deeper understanding of medieval conceptions of emotional expression and their connections to …
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Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
… quoted in the title (from a Prudentius of Troyes epistle) represents the allegory of the studium of the liberal arts and the looking for knowledge in the early middle age. This is a capital problem in the early Christianity and, in general, for all the western world, concerning the …
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Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love
… were often submissive to women—in Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," men tended to bend to the will of women, often finding happiness and true love by doing so. The Moor General Othello is first presented as a submissive husband, but as the play …
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
<p>In “Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature,” I analyze the appearance of the Eucharist as a sacred motif in secular lais, romances, and chronicles. The Eucharist became one of the most controversial intellectual topics of the High Middle Ages. While medieval historians …