Onirisme et Bestialité: le Roman de Guillaume de Palerne

Author: Corbellari A.

Source: Neophilologus, Volume 86, Number 3, July 2002 , pp. 353-362(10)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

The verse-romance of Guillaume de Palerne (about 1200) first attracted critical interest because it presents a werewolf. But this text has another claim to originality: it gives an important place to dreams, in a genre in which generally, according to the romances of Antiquity and Chrétien de Troyes, that songes are nothing but mensonges. I want to develop here the idea that the presence of the werewolf and the revaluation of dreams are linked together and express a kind of "return of the repressed" in the medieval romance.

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Université de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Suisse

Publication date: 2002-07-01

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