Le coeur mangé à plusieurs sauces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22123872 |
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| Authors | Monique Moser-Verrey (Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Topiques études satoriennes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2369-4831 • E-ISSN: 2369-4831 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/1081520ar |
| OpenAlex | W4206558269 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 4 |
The « eaten heart » is a scandalous meal that is to be found in literature from its very start. This story rests on various narrative configurations and topoï rooted in a triangular relationship. The heroine’s lover offers her his heart. But her husband turns it into a dish. She actually enjoys this dish but dies as soon as she finds out that she ate her lovers heart. This study follows the variations of the topos both through time and literary genres from the troubadours’s courtly poems all the way to Sade’s pervers stories. The tragical subject matter also triggered parodies, who either magnified the cannibalism or rejected the appalling meal, preferring a comical resolution. It appears however that from the Middle Ages to the dawn of Romanticism lovers show very little appetite. Their amorous communion truly transcends all greedy misfortunes of this world
Art · Art history · Cannibalism · Elegiac · Humanities · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Romanticism · Sociology · Subject matter · Topos theory · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Medieval European Literature and History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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