Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- A Editions
- B Problems of Editing
- C Bibliography
- D Critical Reviews of Scholarship
- E General Studies on Chrétien
- F Rhetoric, Poetics, and Stylistics
- G Topos, Motif, and Image
- H Romance Narrative: Form – Structure – Characterization – Genre
- J Allegory and Symbolism
- K Language and Linguistics
- L Adaptation and Intertextuality
- M Learned Sources
- N Non-Learned Sources
- P Influences
- Q Literary History and Sociology
- R Biography and Chronology
- S Problems of Courtly Love
- T The Grail
- U Modern Interpretative Methodologies and Approaches
- V The Chansons
- W Works of Disputed Attribution
- X Illustration
- Index of Authors, Editors and Translators
- Index of Romances
- RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND CHECKLISTS NEW SERIES
J - Allegory and Symbolism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- A Editions
- B Problems of Editing
- C Bibliography
- D Critical Reviews of Scholarship
- E General Studies on Chrétien
- F Rhetoric, Poetics, and Stylistics
- G Topos, Motif, and Image
- H Romance Narrative: Form – Structure – Characterization – Genre
- J Allegory and Symbolism
- K Language and Linguistics
- L Adaptation and Intertextuality
- M Learned Sources
- N Non-Learned Sources
- P Influences
- Q Literary History and Sociology
- R Biography and Chronology
- S Problems of Courtly Love
- T The Grail
- U Modern Interpretative Methodologies and Approaches
- V The Chansons
- W Works of Disputed Attribution
- X Illustration
- Index of Authors, Editors and Translators
- Index of Romances
- RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND CHECKLISTS NEW SERIES
Summary
Examination of the allegorical potential of Chrétien's romances has continued, but without the major controversies characteristic of such scholarship in Jc and Jd in the 1976 Bibliography. It appears that the allegorical contexts for medieval reading or listening audiences depended on whether one is concerned with whether Chrétien intended such contexts when he wrote his romances, or whether his audiences perceived them in reflecting on their meaning. A less controversial area has been the allegorization of his narratives in later romances, most notably in the Lancelot-Grail cycle (see Pa). This leaves open the possibility for moral or spiritual allegory as a factor in audience reception, whatever the author's intention may have been. Modern symbolism (Jf) is linked to a number of topics in U.
General Studies
7 Ohly, Friedrich. ‘Vom geistigen Sinn […]’; repr. in his Schriften zur mittelalterlichen Bedeutungsforschung (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1977), pp. 1–31. (XXX.56)
18 Haug, Walter, ‘Die Symbolstruktur […]’ Repr. in Dc15.
23 Beaujouan, Guy, ‘Le symbolisme des nombres à l'époque romane,’ CCM, 4 (1961), 159–69.
24 Frappier, Jean, ‘Aspects de l'hermétisme dans la poésie médiévale,’ CAIEF, 15 (1963), 9–24; repr. in Dc2.
Treats Perceval pp. 15–17.
25 Payen, Jean-Charles, ‘Genèse et finalités de la pensée allégorique au Moyen Age,’ Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 78 (1973), 466–79.
Chrétien's use of personifications.
26 Kuhn, Hugo, ‘Allegorie und Erzählstruktur,’ in Formen und Funktionen der Allegorie, Symposion Wolfenbüttel 1978, ed. Walter Haug, Germanistische Symposien: Berichtsbände, 3 (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1979), pp. 206–18 (XXXII.44); repr. in his Liebe und Gesellschaft, ed. Wolfgang Walliczek (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1980). (XXXIII.45)
Treats the Joie de la cort episode.
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- Chrétien de TroyesAn Analytic Bibliography: Supplement I, pp. 245 - 257Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2002