Past, Present, Future Perfect: Paradigms of History in Medievalism Studies
Brian Helgeland's film, A Knight's Tale , is usually taken to exemplify a paradigm of desire compatible with a capitalist narrative of continuous acquisition and achievement. In the film, another form of desire is evident, however, at odds with the capitalist narrative. Helgeland has intro...
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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/pgn.0.0057 2024-03-03T08:45:10+00:00 Past, Present, Future Perfect: Paradigms of History in Medievalism Studies Dell, Helen 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.0.0057 en eng Project MUSE Parergon volume 25, issue 2, page 58-79 ISSN 1832-8334 Microbiology (medical) Immunology Immunology and Allergy journal-article 2008 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.0.0057 2024-02-03T23:20:38Z Brian Helgeland's film, A Knight's Tale , is usually taken to exemplify a paradigm of desire compatible with a capitalist narrative of continuous acquisition and achievement. In the film, another form of desire is evident, however, at odds with the capitalist narrative. Helgeland has introduced elements of that paradigm of desire usually termed courtly love, based on the deferral or renunciation of satisfaction. These elements appear to have been drawn from one of the seminal narratives of courtly love, Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot . Since the study of a medieval or a medievalist text always involves a kind of historiography, a comparison of these two texts, viewed in the light of psychoanalytic understandings of desire and the history of desire, offers a way of investigating theories of history which underpin medievalism studies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Helgeland Johns Hopkins University Press Helgeland Parergon 25 2 58 79 |
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Brian Helgeland's film, A Knight's Tale , is usually taken to exemplify a paradigm of desire compatible with a capitalist narrative of continuous acquisition and achievement. In the film, another form of desire is evident, however, at odds with the capitalist narrative. Helgeland has introduced elements of that paradigm of desire usually termed courtly love, based on the deferral or renunciation of satisfaction. These elements appear to have been drawn from one of the seminal narratives of courtly love, Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot . Since the study of a medieval or a medievalist text always involves a kind of historiography, a comparison of these two texts, viewed in the light of psychoanalytic understandings of desire and the history of desire, offers a way of investigating theories of history which underpin medievalism studies. |
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