Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice

Anatole Pierre Fuksas; Andrew Lynch; Anne Baden-Daintree; Helen Cooper; Jane Gilbert; Raluca Radulescu; Sif Rikhardsdottir

doi:10.1017/9781782045915

Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature

Body, Mind, Voice

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With contributions by Anatole Pierre Fuksas , Andrew Lynch , Anne Baden-Daintree , Helen Cooper , Jane Gilbert , Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir
Edited by Carolyne Larrington, Corinne Saunders, Frank Brandsma, Associate Professor in Comparative Literature (Middle Ages), Dept of Modern Languages, Utrecht University

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2021
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9781782045915
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782045915

Subjects:: Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Series:: Arthurian Studies

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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 in the 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 as both 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,

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Body, Mind, Voice

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

Contributors
pp viii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-10

Part I - Thinking about Emotions in Arthurian Literature
pp 11-12

1 - Being-in-the-Arthurian-World: Emotion, Affect and Magic in the Prose Lancelot, Sartre and Jay
pp 13-30

2 - Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval English Arthurian Romance
pp 31-46

3 - ‘What cheer?’ Emotion and Action in the Arthurian World
pp 47-64

Part II - Bodies, Minds and Voices: Investigating Emotion in Arthurian Texts
pp 65-66

4 - Ire, Peor and their Somatic Correlates in Chrétien’s Chevalier de la Charrette
pp 67-86

5 - Kingship and the Intimacy of Grief in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
pp 87-104

6 - Tears and Lies: Emotions and the Ideals of Malory’s Arthurian World
pp 105-122

7 - Mourning Gawein: Cognition and Affect in Diu Crône and Some French Gauvain-Texts
pp 123-142

8 - Emotion and Voice: ‘Ay’ in Middle Dutch Arthurian Romances
pp 143-160

9 - Translating Emotion: Vocalisation and Embodiment in Yvain and Ívens Saga
pp 161-180

Afterword: Malory’s Enigmatic Smiles
pp 181-188

Bibliography
pp 189-204

Index
pp 205-210

Arthurian Studies
pp 211-213

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