ENGL 2100Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Courtly Love, Wace, Soltyrei
23 Feb 2016
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Medieval romance and the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle. The great popular literature of the middle ages, chiefly because of its two basic characteristics: advance and wish-fulfillment. Originally, a tale concerning heroic knights and their adventures; had little to do with romantic love. However, we use romantic not only to describe love, but also to capture a certain longing for a life that is more beautiful, more intense and more profound than our everyday existence. Features adventure often one that includes magic or the marvelous. The knight may have to deal with the danger of the otherworld. Is concerned with ideals, with a kind of life that is heightened and intense, and about the struggle to live happily ever after - wish-fulfillment in the broadest sense. In a number of texts, that wish-fulfillment is indeed based on passionate, sexual love love that we would call romantic . Concerns issues of personal and public behaviour.
