Knowing poetry : verse in medieval France from the rose to the Rhétoriqueurs /
In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were rec...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Persistent presence : verse after prose
- Poetry and history
- Poetry and thought
- Knowing the world in verse encyclopedias and encyclopedic verse
- Knowledge and the practice of poetry
- Textual communities : poetry and the social
- Construction of knowledge.