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A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance (Hardcover)
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A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance (Hardcover)
Series: Gallica
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Why should a supposedly Biblical relic lay down its literary roots
in medieval French literature? The Holy Grail made its first
literary appearance in the work of the twelfth-century French poet,
Chretien de Troyes, and continues to fascinate authors and
audiences alike. This study, supported by a theoretical framework
based on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural
theory of Slavoj Zizek, aims to strip the legend of much of the
mythological and folkloric association that it has acquired over
the centuries, arguing that the Grail should be read as a symptom
of disruption and obscurity rather than fulfilment and revelation.
Focusing on two thirteenth-century Arthurian prose romances, La
Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus, and drawing extensively on
the wider field of Old French Grail literature including the works
of Chretien and Robert de Boron, the book examines the personal,
social and textual effects produced by encounters with the Grail in
order to suggestthat the Grail itself is instrumental not only in
creating but also in disturbing, the discursive, psychic and
cultural bonds that are represented in this complex and captivating
literary tradition. BEN RAMM is ResearchFellow in French, St.
Catharine's College, Cambridge.
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