Emotion and Places in Chrétien’s Romances

Autore: Anatole Pierre Fuksas
In: Critica del testo. XXV / 1, 2022
doi:10.23744/4664
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Abstract

Human experience of places is based on emotional resonance: places make little sense to us if they don’t resonate with our feelings, and they are rather mean- ingful according to the intensity of the feelings we attach to them. Based on this general assumption, the paper will essentially focus on the idea that Chrétien de Troyes describes places so as to make them resonate with the interiority of his char- acters. In some relevant cases the very idea of emotional resonance substantially informs the way places are shaped in consideration of the overall meaning of the episode and/or the entire narrative.

Keywords: Medieval French Novel, Chrétien de Troyes, Emotion and Places