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Andreas and the ambiguity of courtly love / / Paolo Cherchi



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Autore: Cherchi Paolo Visualizza persona
Titolo: Andreas and the ambiguity of courtly love / / Paolo Cherchi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1994
©1994
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
Disciplina: 849/.1209354
Soggetto topico: Provençal poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Courtly love in literature
Troubadours
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Ambiguity of Courtly Love in Andreas Capellanus's Model -- Mezura -- The Adynata -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names
Sommario/riassunto: A resolution to the vexed problem whether a troubadour's love is erotic or spiritual is offered by Paolo Cherchi through a new reading of Andreas Capellanus' De Amore (written around 1186-1196). He suggests that Andreas, using a rhetorical strategy that creates ambiguity, condemns courtly love because its claim that passion generates virtue is untenable and deceitful. Although Andreas grasped the core of the courtly love 'system,' namely, the relation between passion and ethics, he failed to consider the notion of mezura, that courtly virtue through which troubadours transformed nature into culture, and erotic passion into social discourse.Cherchi offers an innovative interpretation and a close reading of selected poems. He traces the history of Provençal lyric poetry, highlighting some of the significant personalities and movements.
Titolo autorizzato: Andreas and the ambiguity of courtly love  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4426-7083-5
1-282-00302-X
9786612003028
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456176403321
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Serie: Toronto Italian studies.