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  title info:
    title: Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature
    sub title: Wounds of Desire
  name:
    name part: Ealy, Nicholas.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 238 p. 3 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid's myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature, René d'Anjou's Love-Smitten Heart, Chrétien de Troyes's Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut's Fountain of Love. Together, these texts form a corpus exploring human selfhood as wounded and undone by desire. Emerging in the twelfth century in Western Europe, this discourse of the wounded self has survived with ever-increasing importance, informing contemporary methods of theoretical inquiry into mourning, melancholy, trauma and testimony. Taking its cue from the moment Narcissus bruises himself upon learning he cannot receive the love he wants from his reflection, this book argues that the construct of the wounded self emphasizes fantasy over reality, and that only through the world of the imagination-of literature itself-can our narcissistic injuries seemingly be healed and desire fulfilled.
  table of contents: Part I Narcissism and Selfhood in Context -- 1. Introduction: Narcissus and the Wounded Self -- 2. Narcissus and Selfhood: The Lay of Narcissus -- Part II Selfhood and the Open Wound -- 3. Narcissus and Mourning: Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature -- 4. Narcissus and Melancholy: René d'Anjou's Book of the Love-Smitten Heart -- 5. Narcissus and Trauma: Chrétien de Troyes's Story of the Grail -- 6. Narcissus and Testimony: Guillaume de Machaut's Fountain of Love -- 7. Epilogue: Between Je me plaing and Iste ego sum.
  note: by Nicholas Ealy.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Medieval
  subject:
    topic: European literature
  subject:
    topic: Classical literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Europe-History-476-1492
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Medieval Literature
  subject:
    topic: European Literature
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Antique Literature
  subject:
    topic: Literary Theory
  subject:
    topic: History of Medieval Europe
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation Studies
  classification: PN661-694
  classification: 809.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The New Middle Ages
  identifier: 9783030279165
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27916-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 190930
    record change date: 20191026052412.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-27916-5