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Lovechoice switch4/5/2023 “Cupid, the Lady, and the Poet: Modes of Love at Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Court”. This term, invented by Gaston Paris in 1881, 2 has become commonplace in critical analyses of troubadour poetry. The dangerous, even life-risking, desires expressed in these poems have been carefully tamed, hidden behind the ill-fitting phrase “courtly love”. Perversely, we often approach these poems through the lens of late nineteenth-century notions of propriety and decency that are alien to our own time, and to the time of the troubadours. Some of this change was wrought merely by time and changing customs, but some of it was brought about by the best efforts of historians and literary critics to understand and interpret the past through the expectations, reverences, and distastes of later eras. Reddy defines the troub (.)ģ Centuries of transformation have left many of us ill-equipped to recognize the frankness and passion of troubadour verse. 3 Even so recent an analysis as that of William M.2 Appearing as amour courtois in his article “Études sur les romans de la Table Ronde” in Romania, 10 (.).Love, will, desire, and the willingness (even determination) to risk everything, up to and including death-these are the passions that draw readers and audiences back again and again. Illicit desire-whether celebrated in the passionate poems of medieval Occitania, or sublimated in the poetic tradition of idealized females worshiped by abject males in Dante, Petrarch and Sidney-is central to the energy of Shakespeare and the poetic tradition that follows in his wake. This is the key idea that allows us to understand a literary tradition that stretches from the troubadours through Petrarch to Shakespeare, Milton, and beyond. Doing someone you are not supposed to do. Breaking the rules, doing something you are not supposed to do. Start, at least, with the idea of adultery. Why “Courtly Love” Is Not LoveĢ Start with adultery. Both the consensus, and Auerbach, are wrong. 1 Speaking of die hohe Minne (what French scholars call amour courtois, and English scholars “courtly love”), Auerbach gives voice to a critical consensus that over the last century-and-a half has dominated our understanding of the origins and development of western love poetry. 1 “ür die Provenzalen und die Dichter des Neuen Stils war die hohe Minne das einzige große Thema” (.)ġ In Erich Auerbach’s view, “for the Provençal poets and the poets of the new styl e, ‘high love’ was the only major theme”.Select a male, female, or non-binary protagonist, customize survival parameters like how fast time advances, and race to repair the ship, dig up ancient secrets, or collect data entries on hundreds of undiscovered objects. Solve light puzzles to reveal secrets of a long-lost civilization. Jump and descend through colorful, highly detailed pixel art evoking classic 2D platformers. Residual welcomes players to a non-violent survival experience with limitless possibilities and no traditional combat. Further from the sun, long nights make stamina easier to maintain, but reduced solar power turns every suit function-like scanning the planet-into a critical decision. If a planet orbits close to the sun, intense heat, high winds, and sparse vegetation will pose a set of challenges wildly different from other worlds. OrangePixel’s uniquely designed Nature Engine generates 1000's of planets from a vast set of environment-based rules, then drops explorers on a world brimming with potential. PDB also helps you discover the hidden lore, revealing the history of the planet as you explore deeper and deeper, assuming you can survive! You won't be alone! PDB (a snarky floating Personal Disaster Bot) will follow and assist you along the way. Hunger, cosmic storms, hostile plant life and the mysterious ooze are among the many obstacles you'll face. Unearth alien technology capable of repairing the ship. Craft science-fiction survival tools like teleporters and mining devices. Harvest food and make campfires to stay alive. Venture forth from the shipwreck across a harsh, unpredictable, procedurally generated world. In a forgotten galaxy full of strange planets, a lone explorer crash-lands on one with an ancient alien secret. ![]() a new breed of survival platformer from OrangePixel and legendary indie publisher Apogee Entertainment.
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