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The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean

Megan Moore

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Description:The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture.Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille's theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a desire for death. The link between desire and death serves as an affirmation of living communities. Moore incorporates literary, visual, and codicological evidence in sources from across the Mediterranean--from Old French chansons de geste, such as the Song of Roland and La Mort li roi Artu and romances such as Erec et Enide, Philomena, and Floire et Blancheflor; to Byzantine and Ancient Greek novels; to Middle English travel narratives such as Mandeville's Travels.In her reading of the performance of grief as a performance of community and remembrance, Moore assesses why some lives are imagined as mattering more than others and explores how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean. To get started finding The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture.Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille's theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a desire for death. The link between desire and death serves as an affirmation of living communities. Moore incorporates literary, visual, and codicological evidence in sources from across the Mediterranean--from Old French chansons de geste, such as the Song of Roland and La Mort li roi Artu and romances such as Erec et Enide, Philomena, and Floire et Blancheflor; to Byzantine and Ancient Greek novels; to Middle English travel narratives such as Mandeville's Travels.In her reading of the performance of grief as a performance of community and remembrance, Moore assesses why some lives are imagined as mattering more than others and explores how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean. To get started finding The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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