"New Tristan" ( Jean Maugin, 1554), New Emotions?

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Sarah Cals

In 1554, the rewriter and marchand-librairie Jean Maugin written a new version of the Prose Tristan. Le Premier Livre du
Nouveau Tristan roy de Leonnois, chevalier de la Table Ronde, et d’Yseulte princesse d’Yrlande, royne de Cornouaille, fait Françoys
par Jan Maugin, dit l’Angevin rewrites the thirteenth century text mixing fidelity to the sources and deconstruction of the
Tristanian myth (Harf-Lancner, 1984). I propose to compare the Nouveau Tristan with the 13th century Prose Tristan
and to focus on the representation of emotions related to arma and amor scenes. I draw this research on work done by
Raphaël Micheli who examines the semiotisation of emotions in discourse and identifies émotion dite, émotion montrée
and émotion étayée (2014). The Prose Tristan truly tells emotion, as we can see by the large number of occurrences, but
the Nouveau Tristan prefers to show or support it. My purpose is to analyze the changes on the treatment of emotions
related to the contexts of arma and amor between the texts of the 13th and 16th centuries and to question its possible
inclusion in a chivalric narrative crisis.

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Cals, Sarah. “‘New Tristan’ ( Jean Maugin, 1554), New Emotions?”. Tirant (Butlletí informatiu i bibliogràfic de literatura de cavalleries), 2019, no. 22, pp. 179-94, https://raco.cat/index.php/Tirant/article/view/383306.