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Book SynopsisAnalysis 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,
Trade Review[Works] admirably to replace reflexive responses to romance literature and the culture that produced it with informed understanding, illuminating both the past and the present. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *
The essays . . . offer groundbreaking interpretations of medieval representations of emotion. * BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE *
[T]his collection serves as a perfect springboard for more research on emotion in Arthurian literature, medieval and especially post-medieval. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Frank Brandsma and Carolyne Larrington and Corinne Saunders 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 Charrette - 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 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
