Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 28, Issue 3, 2023

Abstract The Rose-Cassamus is an adaptation of the Old French Vœux du paon in the seemingly love themed Rose-codex. Because love in medieval courtly literature is not a consistent dogma, an examination of the work’s love conception can shed light on both the development of the ideology of love in courtly Middle Dutch literature and the text’s relation to the larger Rose-codex. The traditional relationship between prowess a Read More

Abstract By combining the traditional ‘persona’ concept – which served to understand the relation between the author’s world-view and that of the characters in his fiction (Elliott) – with present-day narratological views on authorship (Walsh) and a sociological analysis of the themes in (fictional and nonfictional) travel literature (Moroz), this article construes a new perspective on persona. This conceptualization of persona does n Read More