Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice
ISBN: 9781782045915
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer
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Subjects: Language & Literature;

Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend.

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 inthe 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 asboth an embodied and consciously articulating emotion.

Frank Brandsma teaches Comparative Literature (Middle Ages) at Utrecht University; Carolyne Larrington is a Fellow in medieval English at St John's College, Oxford;Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Durham.

Contributors: Anne Baden-Daintree, Frank Brandsma, Helen Cooper, Anatole Pierre Fuksas, Jane Gilbert, Carolyne Larrington, Andrew Lynch, Raluca Radulescu, Sif Rikhardsdottir, Corinne Saunders,


Larrington Carolyne :

CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Professor of Medieval European Literature at Oxford University and Official Fellow in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford.Saunders Corinne :

Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.Larrington Carolyne :

CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Professor of Medieval European Literature at Oxford University and Official Fellow in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford.Saunders Corinne :

Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.Gilbert Jane :

JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK.Radulescu Raluca :

Dr Raluca Radulescu is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Bangor UniversityRikhardsdottir Sif :

Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.

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