NDLI: La mélancolie du biographe: Le Roman du Castelain de Couci et le deuil de la voix

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Author	Allen, Anthony
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	Thirteenth-century French courtly narratives are often described as "generic hybrids" because of their extensive play with generic norms. Courtly romance's engagement with generic, discursive and thematic paradigms elaborated in the Old French lyric, in particular, is discernible in the numerous romans featuring "lyric insertions" (romances where pre-existing or new lyric songs are inserted in the narrative frame).The Roman du Castelain de Couci, examined here, provides an especially interesting and, it is argued, metadiscursive example, since its narrator presents itself as a biographer avant la lettre, recounting the (romanced) story of an authentic twelfth-century trouvère, the Châtelain de Coucy. The songs are inserted at important points of the trouvère's tragic love affair, thus revealing the circumstances of their creation. This article first considers the narrator's self-presentation in the prologue, as well as the shifting meanings of lyric signifiers in the narrative context, in order to illuminate the complex intertextual relationship of this roman to the trouvère's song. Various episodes of the story are then analyzed, all pointing to an elegiac encoding of the loss of lyric solipsistic discourse. Framing these observations in a psychoanalytic conceptualization of mourning, the article concludes by positing melancholia as the symbolic process at the basis of romance's renewed generic and discursive "identity".
Starting Page	25
Ending Page	41
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00282677
Journal	Neophilologus
Volume Number	85
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728668
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2001-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Comparative Linguistics Comparative Literature Historical Linguistics Philology Syntax
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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