{"title":"'He spekeþ no more with me': Elegy and Lament in Sir Tristrem","authors":"Thomas Crofts","doi":"10.1353/art.2023.a903757","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Concentrating on the first narrative section of the poem, which encompasses Tristrem's birth and the death of his parents, this article observes the elegiac notes struck by the Tristrem-poet early in the tale, and the epic voicing of lament punctuating the poem's first section and initiating Sir Tristrem's central narrative. A careful reading shows that the Middle English poet not only skillfully adapted his source-text (Thomas of Britain's Tristran) to the demands of oral performance, but also retained, even sharpened, the tragic capability of the 'courtly' Matter of Tristan.","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"33 1","pages":"43 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arthuriana","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2023.a903757","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Concentrating on the first narrative section of the poem, which encompasses Tristrem's birth and the death of his parents, this article observes the elegiac notes struck by the Tristrem-poet early in the tale, and the epic voicing of lament punctuating the poem's first section and initiating Sir Tristrem's central narrative. A careful reading shows that the Middle English poet not only skillfully adapted his source-text (Thomas of Britain's Tristran) to the demands of oral performance, but also retained, even sharpened, the tragic capability of the 'courtly' Matter of Tristan.
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