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Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature : Wounds of Desire by Nicholas Ealy is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p></p><p>This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the <i>Lay of Narcissus</i>, Alain de Lille’s <i>Plaint of Nature</i>, René d’Anjou’s <i>Love-Smitten Heart</i>, Chrétien de Troyes’s <i>Story of the Grail </i>and Guillaume de Machaut’s <i>Fountain of Love</i>. 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 wounde
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- Author
- Nicholas Ealy
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783030279165
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Performing Arts, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25