Eros and noesis a cognitive approach to the courtly love literature of medieval France / by Don A. Monson.
| Author/creator | Monson, Don Alfred |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022. |
| Description | vi, 361 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Cognitive approach to the courtly love literature of medieval France |
| Series | Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; volume 455 Faux titre ; no. 455. ^A474480 |
| Contents | Love problems : courtly literature, genre theory. The problem of "courtly love" : in search of a new paradigm ; Medieval poetic love : biological universality and cultural specificity ; Cognition and genre theory : the system of the courtly genres ; The psycho-dynamics of love : parsing the courtly themes -- Love's discourse : a cognitive taxonomy of the courtly genres. Love song : courtly themes in a lyric mode ; Love story : courtly themes in a narrative mode ; Love lesson : courtly themes in a didactic mode ; Love mocked : courtly themes in a satirical mode. |
| Abstract | "This is the first study to apply the results of modern cognitive science to medieval love literature. Covering the entire corpus of Occitan, French and Latin love literature of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France, it explores the universal and the culturally specific in medieval poetic attitudes towards love, the cognitive structure of the love themes, and the cognitive basis for the system of courtly genres. It proposes a cognitive taxonomy of courtly literature based on three "hyper-genres": the lyric as the basic mode for the expression of love, with courtly narrative and didactic literature arising through a process of amplification of the courtly themes. It also includes anti-courtly satire, which applies to courtly idealism an innate human propensity for detecting cheating"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022002194 |
| ISBN | 9789004504486 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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