Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 07, 510 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 953 g
Reihe: Synthema
Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 07, 510 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 953 g
Reihe: Synthema
ISBN: 978-90-429-2360-7
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
Medieval writers frequently refer to the composition of their own verse and prose works. These authorial interventions are often cryptic and partial. Douglas Kelly's scholarship has been devoted to putting them together, like pieces in a puzzle, in order to reveal a coherent picture of their art of poetry and prose composition. However, despite the interest of this art in its own right, it is more important to find out how it can be used today to interpret, evaluate, and appreciate the works that exemplify it. Although the French art emerged from the medieval Latin tradition in rhetoric and poetics, French authors, from Chrétien de Troyes to Christine de Pizan, adapted it to the composition of their own narratives, lyric poems, and treatises. This book brings together a number of Kelly's articles written over the years that show how these writers invented, with medieval subtlety and imagination, diverse, often compelling compositions.
