Eros and Noesis : a cognitive approach to the courtly love literature of medieval France / / Don A. Monson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910862099003321
• Autore: Monson Don A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2022
• ISBN: 9789004504493; 9789004504486
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 pages)
• Collana: Faux Titre ; ; 455; Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022
• Disciplina: 940.1
• Soggetti: Cognition in literature; Courtly love in literature; French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism; Latin literature, Medieval and modern - France - History and criticism; Literary form; Literature, Medieval - History and criticism; Occitan literature - History and criticism; Literary criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- ; 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 ; Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--