Tristan en reverdie:l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus /Evergreen Tristan: the Mythical Arborescence of a Corpus

In most of its European versions of the central Middle Ages, Tristan nurtures an arborescent dynamics in which human agents reveal a spectacular potential for vegetalization, from the living couple to its tombal avatars, from the French poems to the Norse and German adaptations of a greening narrati...

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Main Author: Brîndușa Grigoriu
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Published: “George Enescu” National University of Arts of Iași 2020-05-01
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description In most of its European versions of the central Middle Ages, Tristan nurtures an arborescent dynamics in which human agents reveal a spectacular potential for vegetalization, from the living couple to its tombal avatars, from the French poems to the Norse and German adaptations of a greening narrative matter (Pastré 1999, Victorin 2009). While exploring the affinities between the romance’s modeling of human ethos and its stylization of sylvan, vegetal figures under the sign of the philter, the present article focuses on the metamorphosis of the love tree in Béroul’s, Marie de France’s, Eilhart von Oberg’s and Robert’s realms of Tristania. In Béroul’s version, the couple fuses into an Edenic matrix where sleeping becomes an ensavaging, liberating process excluding the possibility of corporeal fecundity. (Marchello-Nizia 1981). Marie de France takes the idea of a refuted genealogy one step further, via the symbiosis of the honeysuckle and the hazel tree; this vegetal self-sufficiency excludes God’s commandments by suppressing the mere possibility of achieving a living descendance. In Eilhart’s romance, death is the catalyzer of a revegetation of the consubstantial souls of the lovers, as they are transcendentally reunited by the philter. Robert’s Saga crowns the textual regeneration of the Tristanian matter by resignifying its distinctive sign of mythical arborescence.
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spelling doaj-art-63b67565ce424fbca1307e240c85da342025-08-20T03:56:18Zdeu“George Enescu” National University of Arts of IașiAnastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art2392-862X2392-94722020-05-01VII1496410.35218/armca.2020.1.02Tristan en reverdie:l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus /Evergreen Tristan: the Mythical Arborescence of a CorpusBrîndușa Grigoriu0Maître de conférences à l’Université Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iaşi, Roumanie, brindusagrigoriu@yahoo.frIn most of its European versions of the central Middle Ages, Tristan nurtures an arborescent dynamics in which human agents reveal a spectacular potential for vegetalization, from the living couple to its tombal avatars, from the French poems to the Norse and German adaptations of a greening narrative matter (Pastré 1999, Victorin 2009). While exploring the affinities between the romance’s modeling of human ethos and its stylization of sylvan, vegetal figures under the sign of the philter, the present article focuses on the metamorphosis of the love tree in Béroul’s, Marie de France’s, Eilhart von Oberg’s and Robert’s realms of Tristania. In Béroul’s version, the couple fuses into an Edenic matrix where sleeping becomes an ensavaging, liberating process excluding the possibility of corporeal fecundity. (Marchello-Nizia 1981). Marie de France takes the idea of a refuted genealogy one step further, via the symbiosis of the honeysuckle and the hazel tree; this vegetal self-sufficiency excludes God’s commandments by suppressing the mere possibility of achieving a living descendance. In Eilhart’s romance, death is the catalyzer of a revegetation of the consubstantial souls of the lovers, as they are transcendentally reunited by the philter. Robert’s Saga crowns the textual regeneration of the Tristanian matter by resignifying its distinctive sign of mythical arborescence.http://anastasis-review.ro/wp-content/uploads/ARMCA-2020-VII-1-02_Brindusa-Grigoriu.pdftristanedenic treeintertextual revegetationmythical arborescence
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Tristan en reverdie:l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus /Evergreen Tristan: the Mythical Arborescence of a Corpus
Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art
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title Tristan en reverdie:l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus /Evergreen Tristan: the Mythical Arborescence of a Corpus
title_full Tristan en reverdie:l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus /Evergreen Tristan: the Mythical Arborescence of a Corpus
title_fullStr Tristan en reverdie:l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus /Evergreen Tristan: the Mythical Arborescence of a Corpus
title_full_unstemmed Tristan en reverdie:l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus /Evergreen Tristan: the Mythical Arborescence of a Corpus
title_short Tristan en reverdie:l’arborescence mythique d’un corpus /Evergreen Tristan: the Mythical Arborescence of a Corpus
title_sort tristan en reverdie l arborescence mythique d un corpus evergreen tristan the mythical arborescence of a corpus
topic tristan
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