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Emotionen in den Tristan-Romanen: Zorn- und Wutausbrüche

  • Danielle Buschinger
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Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman
This chapter is in the book Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman

Abstract

In the Tristan of Thomas, as in that of Eilhart, we can see a kind of chain reaction between protagonists, a series of fits of anger or rage that facilitate plot development. Emotion reaches its highest pitch in Eilhart, at the point when Tristrant’s marriage with the second Isalde is consummated. The function of anger is clearly recognisable here: womanly anger on the one hand (Isalde’s) and manly anger on the other (Tristrant’s), the latter provoked by the former. While the Anglo- Norman text can be described as conforming to the norms of a romance, Eilhart’s story draws in this episode on the conventions of heroic epic.

Abstract

In the Tristan of Thomas, as in that of Eilhart, we can see a kind of chain reaction between protagonists, a series of fits of anger or rage that facilitate plot development. Emotion reaches its highest pitch in Eilhart, at the point when Tristrant’s marriage with the second Isalde is consummated. The function of anger is clearly recognisable here: womanly anger on the one hand (Isalde’s) and manly anger on the other (Tristrant’s), the latter provoked by the former. While the Anglo- Norman text can be described as conforming to the norms of a romance, Eilhart’s story draws in this episode on the conventions of heroic epic.

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