A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance
The Holy Grail made its first literary appearance in the work of the twelfth-century French poet, Chrétien de Troyes, and continues to fascinate authors and audiences alike. This study, supported by a theoretical framework based on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, aims to strip the legend of much of the mythological and folkloric association that it has acquired over the centuries, arguing that the Grail should be read as a symptom of...
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Why should a supposedly Biblical relic lay down its literary roots in medieval French literature?
Acknowledgements viiAbbreviations ixIntroduction: Tant sainte chose: For a New Discourse of the Grail 1This is not the One: Identity, Abjection and meconnaissance in the Perlesvaus 31Falling out with God: The Discursive Inconsistency of La Queste del Saint Graal 62Remissio Peccatorum: Relocating the Sins of the Grail Hero 90Dead to the World: Dreaming of Life and Death on the Quest of the Holy Grail 122Conclusion: 'Si avoit son tens trespasse': The Final Sacrifice of the Grail Hero? 149Bibliography 161Index 177
