Abstract
dc:descriptionMany medieval chivalric romances contain an episode in which the hero goes insane, lives wild in the woods, gets better, and resumes his adventures. Most studies of such episodes have focused on ways that literature reflects medical and theological topics, but this study explores ways that literary madness synthesizes models of madness in medieval art and thought to augment major themes in Suibhne Geilt, Vita Merlini, Robert of Sicily, and the cycles of Yvain, Tristan, and Lancelot. The onset of madness reflects a moment of psychological trauma, and recovery of sanity portrays symbolically the hero's moral recalibration.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Sprunger, David Allan
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Friedman, John Block
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI9305703
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72038