The Stag of Love The Chase in Medieval Literature 1st edition by Marcelle Thiébaux 080147969X 9780801479694

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ISBN 10: 080147969X
ISBN 13: 9780801479694
Author: Marcelle Thiébaux

A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid’s flourishing legacies. While representing a range of human experience, the metaphor finds its dominant expression in the literature of love. As Marcelle Thiébaux demonstrates, the hunt’s disciplined violence represented sexual desire, along with strategies and arts for getting love, the joys of love, and love’s elevating mystique. The genre gave rise to a lavish imagery of footprints and tracking, arrows, nets, dogs and leashes, wounds, dismemberment and blood, that persisted to Shakespeare’s day.

The Stag of Love 1st Table of contents:

I. Literature and the Hunt
Hunting Practice and Ceremony
The Iconography of the Stag
The Hunt as a Literary Structure
II. The Chase in Medieval Narrative
The Sacred Chase: Aelfric’s Passion of St. Eustace
The Mortal Chase: Siegfried’s Death in the Nibelungenlied
The Instructive Chase: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
III. The Love Chase
Images of the Love Chase from Antiquity
Ovid and the Middle Ages
Combined Forms of the Love Chase in Medieval Literature
The Sacred Chase Transformed: Love and the Other World
The Mortal Chase Transformed: The Poet’s Vision of the Death of the Hart
The Instructive Chase Transformed: Love as the Latter End of Knowledge
IV. Medieval Allegories of the Love Chase
France: The Sanguinary Stag
Li dis dou cerf amoreus : The Stag of Love
L’Amoureuse Prise : Love’s Capture
Le dit du cerf blanc : The White Stag
Germany: The Elusive Quarry
Before Hadamar von Laber
Hadamar von Laber: Die Jagd
Epilogue: After Hadamar
Germany

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