Courtly love

Courtly love July 22, 2006

A former student, Matt Dau, commented on reading David Bentley Hart’s description of postmodernism and the sublime that it seemed very similar to the courtly love tradition – the dominating attraction of one’s life is the inaccessible beauty of the beloved. Judging from Holsinger’s work, that analogy is no accident. Lacan did a psychoanalysis of the courtly love tradition, Bataille edited a poem of chivalry, and de Rougement’s work on the courtly love tradition in the West was studied by the members of the French avant garde of the early twentieth century.


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