| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 865 pages) : illustrations |
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I. The liberal arts and the arts of Latin textuality -- Grammatica and literary theory / Martin Irvine with David Thomson -- The arts of poetry and prose / J.J. Murphy -- The arts of letter-writing / Ronald G. Witt -- The arts of preaching / Siegfried Wenzel -- II. The study of classical authors -- From late Antiquity to the twelfth century / Winthrop Wetherbee -- From the twelfth century to c. 1450 / Vincent Gillespie -- III. Textual psychologies : imagination, memory, pleasure -- Medieval imagination and memory / Alastair Minnis -- The profits of pleasure / Glending Olson -- IV. Vernacular critical traditions : the early middle ages -- Medieval Irish literary theory and criticism / Patrick Sims-Williams and Erich Poppe -- Anglo-Saxon textual attitudes / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Literary theory and practice in early-medieval Germany / John L. Flood -- Literary criticism in Welsh before c.1300 / Marged Haycock -- Criticism and literary theory in Old Norse-Icelandic / Margaret Clunies Ross |
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V. Vernacular critical traditions : the late middle ages -- Latin commentary tradition and vernacular literature / Ralph Hanna, Tony Hunt, R.G. Keightley, Alastair Minnis and Nigel F. Palmer -- Vernacular literary consciousness c. 1100 -- c. 1500 : French, German and English evidence / Kevin Brownlee, Tony Hunt, Ian Johnson, Alastair Minnis and Nigel F. Palmer -- Occitan grammars and the art of troubadour poetry / Simon Gaunt and John Marshall -- Literary theory and polemic in Castile, c. 1200-c. 1500 / Julian Weiss -- Literary criticism in Middle High German literature / Nigel F. Palmer -- Later literary criticism in Wales / Gruffydd Aled Williams -- VI. Latin and vernacular in Italian literary theory -- Dante Alighieri : experimentation and (self- ) exegesis / Zygmunt G. Barański -- The Epistle to Can Grande / Zygmunt G. Barański -- The Trecento commentaries on Dante's Commedia / Steven Botterill -- Latin and vernacular from Dante to the age of Lorenzo (1321 -c. 1500) / Martin McLaughlin -- Humanist views on the study of Italian poetry in the early Italian Renaissance / David Robey -- Humanist criticism of Latin and vernacular prose / Martin McLaughlin -- VII. Byzantine literary theory and criticism -- Byzantine criticism and the uses of literature / Thomas M. Conley |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 693-815) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Criticism -- History
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Criticism.
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Literature, Medieval.
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)
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Johnson, Ian R. (Ian Richard)
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| ISBN |
9781139053891 |
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1139053892 |
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9781139053891 |
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