Natalia M. Dolgorukova, PhD in Philology, Research Fellow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Humanities, Digital Humanities Institute, Group for Digital Technology Transfer in the Humanities, Myasnitskaya Street, 11, 101000, Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5553-0581 ; Alesya А. Lyubavina, PhD Student, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Myasnitskaya Street, 11, 101000, Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1638-9777
The publication was prepared during the research (No. 22-00-067 “Corpus of Latin and Roman medieval parody texts in the light of M.M. Bakhtin’s theory”) within the Program “Research Foundation of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)” in 2023. The article is devoted to the work and personality of the Arras trouvère Adam de la Halle through the analysis of his play “Play of the Greensward”. Particular attention is paid to the problem of the autobiographical nature of the work and how the images of the poet and the character he created intersect in it. The article also examines the cultural and historical context of the 13 th century, in which Adam worked – the city of Arras and the literary brotherhood of Puy, of which he was a part. The authors consider Puy not as a strict academy, but as a creative space with elements of carnival and irony. An important part of the analysis is the genre of jeuxpartie – poetic debates, in which Adam actively participated. Attention is paid to the contradictory views of the trouvère on love and life, presented in his jeux-partie and “The Leave Taking”, and how they reflect the change of cultural paradigms. Ultimately, the article examines the possibility of a complete identification of the author’s real biography with his literary characters and emphasizes the artistic conventionality of any autobiographical elements in his works.
Adam de la Halle; “Play of the Greensward”; Puy d’Arras; autobiography; jeux-partie; Arras; carnival culture.
20.12.2024
30.01.2025
Dolgorukova, N.M., Lyubavina, A.A. “Adam de la Halle – Author and Character”. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 2(68), 2025, pp. 147–159. (In Russ.)
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