24 avril 2020
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Sarah Cals, « De père en fils : éthique et poétique de la peur dans Ysaïe le Triste », Publicações do Cidehus, ID : 10.4000/books.cidehus.9792
At the end of the 14th century an anonymous author writes a sequel to the famous Tristan romances. Ysaïe le Triste fills a gap of the previous romances giving the classic couple a son, eponymous hero, and a grandson, Marc l’Essilié, who reminds about the violent epic knights. I draw this research on work done by Patricia Victorin (2002) who shows the confluence in this romance which mixes literary traditions in a complex narrative construction. I propose to examine fear in Ysaïe le Triste and to compare it to its source, the Prose Tristan. In these, the knight Dinadan has a critical discourse about chivalric values, including manipulating fear. This dinadian discourse splits in Ysaïe le Triste and takes a new shape in several fear schemes related to characters: Drian – Dinadan’s son, the dwarf Tronc, Ysaïe and Marc. My purpose is to examine the splitting of the dinadian discourse and to question its possible inclusion in a chivalric narrative crisis.