The Comic Rejection of Courtly Love
- Author / Editor
- Brody, Saul N[athaniel].
The Comic Rejection of Courtly Love
- Published
- Ferrante, Joan M., and George D. Economou, eds. In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature (Port Washington, NY, Kennikat, 1975), pp. 221-61.
- Description
- Compares Chaucer's satire of courtly love with similar depictions in "Frauendienst" by Ulrich von Lichtenstein, "De Guillaume au Faucon," and "Flamenca," all of which reflect awareness of the fading of the courtly ideal and the dissolution of noble privilege in literary authors and audiences. Comments on Ros, PF, the pairing of KnT and MilT, MerT, SqT, and FranT, noting various ironies, intrusions from the fabliau genre, and devices of narrative distancing.
- Contributor
- Ferrante, Joan M, ed.
- Economou, George D., ed.
- Alternative Title
- In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- To Rosemounde
- Parliament of Fowls