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This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the __Lay of Narcissus__, Alain de Lille’s __Plaint of Nature__, René d’Anjou’s __Love-Smitten Heart__, Chrétien de Troyes’s __Story of the Grail__ and Guillaume de Machaut’s __Fountain of Love__. Together, these texts form a corpus exploring human selfhood as wounded and undone by desire. Emerging in the twelfth century in Western Europe, this discourse of the wounded self has survived with ever-increasing importance, informing contemporary methods of theoretical inquiry into mourning, melancholy, trauma and testimony. Taking its cue from the moment Narcissus bruises himself upon learning he cannot receive the love he wants from his reflection, this book argues that the construct of the wounded self emphasizes fantasy over reality, and that only through the world of the imagination—of literature itself—can our narcissistic injuries seemingly be healed and desire fulfilled.

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Author

Nicholas Ealy

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030279158

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, History