Sea Voyages in Medieval Romances: Symbolic Trails through Existential Experiences and Female Suffering on the Water.
- Author / Editor
- Classen, Albrecht.
Sea Voyages in Medieval Romances: Symbolic Trails through Existential Experiences and Female Suffering on the Water.
- Published
- Critical Literary Studies 2.2 (2020): 27-46.
- Description
- Suggests that in medieval literature generally the "motif of crossing a body of water was regularly perceived as an epistemological operation of a physical and a spiritual kind," and explores the notion in several narratives, including MLT, examining how sea travel tests and affirms protagonists' firmness of character and devotion.
- Chaucer Subjects
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