From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry
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As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1501746669
ISBN13:9781501746666
Release Date:August 2019
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:390 Pages
Weight:1.24 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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