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The ethical poetic of the later Middle Ages : a decorum of convenient distinction /

This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably explain medieval texts, and identifies new primary medieval evidence which may ground and guide new re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Judson Boyce, 1932-1985
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1982.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ethical poetry, poetic ethics, and the sentence of poetry
  • 2. Poetic thinking and the forma tractandi
  • 3. Poetic disposition and the forma tractatus
  • 4. Assimilatio and the material of poetry
  • 5. The assimilation of the real world
  • 6. 'Consideratio' and the audiences of poetry
  • Index of subjects and authors
  • Index of manuscripts