Living death in medieval French and English literature / Jane Gilbert.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

viii, 283 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction: living death -- 1. Roland and the second death -- 2. The knight as thing: courtly love in the non-cyclic prose Lancelot -- 3. The Ubi Sunt topos in Middle French: sad stories of the death of kings -- 4. Ceci n'est pas une marguerite: anamorphosis in Pearl -- 5. Becoming woman in Chaucer: on ne naît pas femme, on le devient en mourant -- Conclusion: living dead or dead-in-life?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-278) and index.