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Love and War in Cligés
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Arthuriana
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October 1, 2008
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In the first part of Cligés, the intercalated stories of love and war suggest that each is articulated through the other. (PM)
Cligés is the only one of Chrétien's romances in which he recounts a war. Critics have long noted the realistic detail that Chrétien uses to describe Angrés's treason and Arthur's war against him in the first part of the romance, and they have often seen a disjunction between the realistic representation of the violence of war and the monologues full of metaphor and figurative language through which Alexandre and Soredamors come to understand and experience their love for each other. The perception of such a disjunction is heightened by the abrupt movements of ...
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