Lettre, Love, and Magic in Marie de France’s Les Deus Amanz
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Les Deus Amanz (“The Two Lovers”) is one of the twelve Breton lays composed by an Anglo-Norman female author named Marie de France in the second half of the twelfth century. Marie in this particular lay tells us of the tragic love story of a young princess and her lover. In this paper, I would like to observe closely the ways in which Marie engineers the love of the princess and her beloved to dissipate into disappointment and death. More specifically, I will try to explain what and who may impede the couple to consummate their love, though the magic potion is indeed of high efficacy and literally in the maiden’s hand. The grounding premise of this paper is that the princess’s beloved, who betrays himself to be a deficient and immature lover and reader, ultimately thwarts their love from fruition. Elaborating this proposition will revolve around other important themes, including the significance of reading, the inter-referential relation of love and reading, and the transformation of writing and reading into magic, the marked motifs that are persistently prevailing not only in this lay but in Marie’s several other lays. Investigating Les Deus Amanz in meta- and inter-textual context will help us to see significant points that may otherwise be easily dismissed in discussing the lay.
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Les Deus Amanz (“The Two Lovers”) is one of the twelve Breton lays composed by an Anglo-Norman female author named Marie de France in the second half of the twelfth century. Marie in this particular lay tells us of the tragic love story of a young princess and her lover. In this paper, I would like to observe closely the ways in which Marie engineers the love of the princess and her beloved to dissipate into disappointment and death. More specifically, I will try to explain what and who may impede the couple to consummate their love, though the magic potion is indeed of high efficacy and literally in the maiden’s hand. The grounding premise of this paper is that the princess’s beloved, who betrays himself to be a deficient and immature lover and reader, ultimately thwarts their love from fruition. Elaborating this proposition will revolve around other important themes, including the significance of reading, the inter-referential relation of love and reading, and the transformation of writing and reading into magic, the marked motifs that are persistently prevailing not only in this lay but in Marie’s several other lays. Investigating Les Deus Amanz in meta- and inter-textual context will help us to see significant points that may otherwise be easily dismissed in discussing the lay.
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