Amour au miroir
Subtitle: les fables du fantasme, ou, la voie lyrique du roman médiéval
By: Milena Mikhaïlova-Makarius
Series: Publications romanes et françaises -- CCLXVI; Publications romanes et françaises -- 266.
Publisher: Librairie Droz S.A.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Genève
Language: fre
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9782600018982
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism; Romances; Love in literature
Other titles: Fables du fantasme; Voie lyrique du roman médiéval
Description: The myth of love inherent in fin'amor, invented by the troubadours at the end of the 11th century, remains alive in the French medieval courtly romance. Represented as variations of love in the mirror of Narcissus, it becomes the fertile vein of a movement which the author calls the lyric romance. This rivals the "Breton" courtly romance and its priestly version by focusing on the adventure of love. It aims to go beyond the lyric vision of love, inventing a continuation to it and resolving its internal contradictions. The courtly romance undertakes thereby to cure the courtly neurosis. Its fictions raise an aesthetical and spiritual question: if it remains fanciful, is love possible without resorting to the magical? The book proposes to reveal the identity and the stakes of the courtly romance from the 12th to the 14th century. The resemblance of courtly love romance to a German short-story of the early 20th century shows the perennial nature of this subject in western literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Deux chemins vers l'amour : Le lai de Narcisse; title: ch. 2. Le miroir en pierre : Pyrame et Thisbé; title: ch. 3. Déconstruire le miroir : Le roman de la rose; title: ch. 4. La réponse de Jean de Meun; title: ch. 5. Entre pierreries et ombres, "Contez, vous qui savez de nonbre" : Le lai de l'ombre; title: ch. 6. La vue oblique : Floris et Lyriopé, Galeran de Bretagne; title: ch. 7. La crise de la fable : le Voir dit de Guillaume de Machaut; title: ch. 8. Le retour au fantasme : Froissart, L'espinette amoureuse et le Joli buisson de Jonece; title: La langue des mouches dans Gradiva.