Gilbert, JL;
(2019)
Ami et Amile and Jean-Luc Nancy: Friendship vs Community?
In: Tudor, AP and Burr, KL, (eds.)
Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature: The Other Within.
(pp. 79-91).
University Press of Florida: Gainesville, US.
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Abstract
Contributors to Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature consider the multiplicity and instability of identity in medieval French literature, examining the ways in which literary identity can be created and re-created, adopted, refused, imposed, and self-imposed. Moreover, it is possible to take one’s place in a group while remaining foreign to it. Chrétien de Troyes’s Conte du Graal provides the perfect example of the latter. The tale opens with Perceval hunting alone in the forest, absorbed in his own pursuits, world, and thoughts. His “alone-ness” and self-absorption are evident as he moves toward an integration into a society from which he emerges both accepted and yet even more “different.” The ability to exist simultaneously inside and outside of a community serves as the focal point for the volume, which illustrates the breadth of perspectives from which one may view the “Other Within.” The chapters study identity through a wide range of lenses, from marginal characters to gender to questions of religious difference and of voice and naming. The works analyzed span genres—chanson de geste, romance, lyric poetry, hagiography—and historical periods, ranging from the twelfth century to the late Middle Ages. In so doing, they highlight the fluidity and complexity of identity in medieval French texts, underscoring both the richness of the literature and its engagement with questions that are at once more and less modern than they may initially appear.
Type: | Book chapter |
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Title: | Ami et Amile and Jean-Luc Nancy: Friendship vs Community? |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056432.001.... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Ami et Amile, Jean-Luc Nancy, community, communauté désoeuvrée, compagnonnage, chanson de geste, friendship, sameness, violence |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10081861 |
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