Living death in medieval French and English literature

Publication Data

• Title Living death in medieval French and English literature
• Author Jane Gilbert
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: living death
1. Roland and the second death
2. The knight as thing: courtly love in the non-cyclic prose Lancelot
3. The Ubi Sunt topos in Middle French: sad stories of the death of kings
4. Ceci n'est pas une marguerite: anamorphosis in Pearl
5. Becoming woman in Chaucer: on ne naît pas femme, on le devient en mourant
Conclusion: living dead or dead-in-life?.

Topics

• English literature :: Middle English, 1100-1500 :: History and criticism
• French literature :: To 1500 :: History and criticism
• Death in literature
• Dead in literature
• Death :: Political aspects
• Death :: Moral and ethical aspects
• Existentialism in literature
• Ethics in literature

Living death in medieval French and English literature by Jane Gilbert. ISBN 9781107003835. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.