Emozioni dominate. Sentimenti liberati. Gauvain nell’Atre Périlleux

Autore: Maurizio Virdis
In: Critica del testo. XIX / 3, 2016
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Abstract

This article aims to take stock of the system shaping the repre- sentation of the emotional sphere in L’Atre Perilleux (French Arthurian novel, post-Chretien, XIII century). This novel is in part parodic, in part it – starting from a critique of previous courtly tradition – aims at reconstructing a complex network of social and moral va- lues. As a consequence it is interesting to note that the investigation on how the representation of emotions, organized, at primary level, according to the most traditional and usable rules, is later subtly bent to a critique of such an emotional sphere. The intent seems to be establishing a more solid rationality that may rule over emotions: these are not abolished or suppressed, but turn into a feeling of the inner being on which the self may be built.