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Half-title 3 Series-title 4 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Acknowledgements 8 Note on translations 10 Introduction: living death 11 Life and death 11 Entre-deux-morts 16 Death and the work of art 19 Lacanian ethics and politics 22 Antigone 28 Antigone's drive 29 Antigone's desire 33 A medieval antigone? 36 The structure of this book 37 Chapter 1 Roland and the second death 39 Death drive and life cycle 41 Roland between two deaths: the assonanced chanson de roland 43 Assonance and rhyme 54 The sublime object of ideology 62 Chapter 2 The knight as Thing: courtly love in the non-cyclic prose Lancelot 70 The non-cyclic prose lancelot 72 'Courtly love’ and its discontents 73 Lancelot and guinevere: lacanian courtly lovers? 81 Courtly love ethics 86 Galehot 95 The knight as thing 100 L’amour chevaleresque en anamorphose 106 Chapter 3 The ubi sunt topos in Middle French: sad stories of the death of kings 113 Imagining sovereignty 116 'Je suis mort’ 126 Dead man talking: villon's 'ballades du temps jadis’ 132 The 'ballade des dames’ 134 The 'ballade des seigneurs’ 144 The 'ballade en vieil langage françois’ 155 Chapter 4 Ceci n’est pas une marguerite: anamorphosis in Pearl 161 The narrati

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Author

Jane Gilbert

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction