UID:
almafu_9959695798702883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 865 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-05389-2
Content:
This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages that covers all the main traditions in Latin, the major European vernaculars and Byzantine Greek. Starting with the study of grammar and the formal 'arts' of poetry, letter-writing and preaching, it proceeds to offer a full description of the Latin commentary tradition on classical and classicising literature, followed by explanations of medieval views on literary imagination and memory and the ways in which certain texts were believed to achieve moral profit through pleasure. Subsequent essays explore the diverse theoretical and critical traditions which developed in the vernacular languages, ranging from Medieval Irish to Old Norse, Occitan to Middle High German, concentrating particularly on Dante and his commentators and Italian humanist criticism. The volume concludes with an examination of the attitudes to literature and its uses in Greek Byzantium.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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The liberal arts and the arts of Latin textuality --
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Grammatica and literary theory /
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The arts of poetry and prose /
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The arts of letter-writing /
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The arts of preaching /
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The study of classical authors --
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From late Antiquity to the twelfth century /
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From the twelfth century to c. 1450 /
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Textual psychologies : imagination, memory, pleasure --
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Medieval imagination and memory /
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The profits of pleasure /
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Vernacular critical traditions : the early middle ages --
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Medieval Irish literary theory and criticism /
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Anglo-Saxon textual attitudes /
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Literary theory and practice in early-medieval Germany /
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Literary criticism in Welsh before c.1300 /
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Criticism and literary theory in Old Norse-Icelandic /
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Vernacular critical traditions : the late middle ages --
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Latin commentary tradition and vernacular literature /
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Vernacular literary consciousness c. 1100 -- c. 1500 : French, German and English evidence /
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Occitan grammars and the art of troubadour poetry /
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Literary theory and polemic in Castile, c. 1200-c. 1500 /
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Literary criticism in Middle High German literature /
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Later literary criticism in Wales /
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Latin and vernacular in Italian literary theory --
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Dante Alighieri : experimentation and (self- ) exegesis /
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The Epistle to Can Grande /
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The Trecento commentaries on Dante's Commedia /
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Latin and vernacular from Dante to the age of Lorenzo (1321 -c. 1500) /
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Humanist views on the study of Italian poetry in the early Italian Renaissance /
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Humanist criticism of Latin and vernacular prose /
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Byzantine literary theory and criticism --
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Byzantine criticism and the uses of literature /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-31718-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-30007-X
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521300070
