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1、For2003MedievalConference,Fu-jenUniversity“Kanhespekeweloflove?”:LuftalkandChivalry「他訴說情愛的功夫在行嗎？」：情話與騎士之道Dr.DeniseMing-yuehWangNationalChungChengUniversity王明月中正大學外文系(draft,2003/03/09)Today,I’dliketospeaktoyouaboutchivalryinChaucer’sTroilusandCriseyde.Inthisessay,allrefe
2、rencestoChaucer’sTroilusandCriseydearefromTheRiversideChaucer,editedbyLarryBenson(Boston:Houghton,1987).ThetranslationisthatofNevillCoghill(London:Penguin,1971),whichIhaveslightlymodifiedinafewplaces.Iwanttostartwithamethodologicalremarkaboutmytalk,soyouwillknowthekindo
3、ftalkyou’regoingtobelisteningtoandthereasonswhyI’mgivingthiskindoftalkratherthansomeotherkind.Inthefollowing20minutesorsoIwillbediscussingthelanguageof“courtlylove”Thedefinitionsof“courtlylove”or“chivalry”as“Humility,Courtesy,Adultery,andtheReligionofLove."aregivenbyC.S
4、.LewisinTheAllegoryofLove(Oxford,1936),however,theexactnatureofthemedievalidealofcourtlyloveishotlydebated,andthequestionofwhetherornotthemedievalconceptofloveisdifferentfromthatofotherhistoricalperiodsisalsounresolved.SeeRobertson’s“MedievalDoctrinesofLove,”(472-501)an
5、dWindeatt’s“Love,”(116-31).Inthisessay,Iwanttoclaimthat,attheveryleast,therewasaparticularmedievalformationoflovethatwasconstrainedbyspecificlanguageconventionsindefiningaspecialsocialsystemofsexuality.inmedievalromanceworldanditsrelationtoChaucer’stragicnarrative,Troil
6、usandCriseyde.Iwillbeoffering,inotherwords,whatisknowninliterarycriticismasastylisticreadingoragenrestudyofChaucer’sTroilus.BythisImeannotsimplyareadingthatseekstounderstandChaucer’s“tragedy”intermsofgenreperse,sincetherearemanykindsofliteratureinit.Somecriticshavepoint
7、edoutthe“tragic,”“comic,”“tragic-comic,”or“melodramatic”natureofthepoem.Thecritics,whoworkinparticularonthegenreofthepoem,IhaveinmindhereareStephenKnight,A.C.Spearing,andMonicaA.McAlpine.Iwillnottalkaboutliteraryhistory,forexample,aboutromanceconventions,thedefinitionso
8、f“courtlylove”giveneitherbyAndreasCapellanusorC.S.Lewis,northekindsofsourcesthatChaucerused,theItalianandFrenc
