The Evil in Medieval Literature: The Example of the Incontinent Student

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  • Daniel Padilha Pacheco da Costa Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.1.73-89

Keywords:

medieval literature, François Villon, representation of the evil

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the representation of the evil by medieval literature through the example of the incontinent student, in particular, the character of the famous villain François Villon. For that, we focus on deciphering the enigmatic conclusion of his first long poem, Lais, whose metalinguistic description of the lover’s loss of consciousness gives a scholastic explanation for his mental disorder. This explanation allows Villon to justify the escape of Paris through his incontinence, which is both loving and moral at the same time, as always happens in the courtly literature of the time.

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Daniel Padilha Pacheco da Costa, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

É atualmente Professor Adjunto do curso de Tradução e do programa de pós-graduação em Estudos Literários do Instituto de Letras e Linguística da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Doutor pelo Departamento de Letras Modernas da USP (Programa de Estudos Linguísticos, Literários e Tradutológicos em Francês), com um estágio doutoral de um ano na Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Graduado em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo e em Letras Francesas pela Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), com proficiência integral em Língua Francesa (Parcours Littérature).

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2017-07-03

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Costa, D. P. P. da. (2017). The Evil in Medieval Literature: The Example of the Incontinent Student. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 27(1), 73–89. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.1.73-89

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2017): Literatura e Mal

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Dossiê - Literatura e Mal

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