Rupert T. Pickens

Perceval and Gawain in Dark Mirrors

Reflection and Reflexivity in Chretien de Troyes's Conte del Graal

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative author of verse romance, Chrétien de Troyes wrote in northern France between 1170 and 1190. Credited with the first Arthurian romance, he composed five works set in King Arthur's court, culminating with an unfinished masterpiece, the Conte del Graal (Story of the Grail). This text is the first to mention the banquet serving dish that became the Holy Grail in early efforts to rewrite or complete the text. This book focuses on the Conte's narrative depiction of mirrors real and metaphorical: shining armor, a polished golden eagle, the Grail itself, St. Paul's enigmatic looking glass, the blood drops in snow in which Perceval sees the face of his beloved. The last chapter joins the controversy over Chrétien's intended conclusion, and proposes a climactic ending in which Perceval, heir to the Grail kingdom, confronts his double, Gawain, heir to Arthur's Logres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780786494385
• ISBN-10: 0786494387
• Artikelnr.: 41238107

Autorenporträt

Rupert T. Pickens has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Kentucky and has published on medieval topics. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface: Chrétien de Troyes's Conte del Graal
1 Introduction. The Prologue: "Through a glass, darkly"
11 1.
Specularity and Reflective Sequences
17 2.
The Hermitage: "He that abideth in charity"
55 3.
Gawain in the Galloway Borderland
85 4.
Apotheosis and Relapse
104 Conclusion: "Hide your good deeds from your left hand"
133 Appendices A.
The Peccatum matris as Original Sin: Psalm 108/109:14
153 B.
The Peccatum matris as an Incentive to Charity: Foregrounding the Mother in the Vulgate Sirach
155 C.
The Custom of Logres in the Charrete
158 Chapter Notes
161 Bibliography
185 Index
195