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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allen, Judson Boyce, 1932-1985
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1982.
Subjects:
To 1500
Criticism, Medieval > History.
Poetics > History > To 1500.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Criticism > Europe > History.
Critique > Europe > Histoire.
Poétique > Histoire.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Critique médiévale.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism.
Criticism, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval.
Poetics.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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