From Topic to Tale : Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages.
Title:
From Topic to Tale : Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages.
Author:
Vance, Eugene.
ISBN:
9780816682478
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (168 pages)
Series:
Theory and History of Literature
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: In Memoriam by Wlad Godzich -- Introduction -- 1. From Grammatica to a Poetics of the Text -- 2. De voir dire mot le conjure: Dialectics and Fictive Truth -- 3. Selfhood and Substance in Erec et Enide -- 4. Topos and Tale -- 5. Si est homo, est animal -- 6. From Man-Beast to Lion-Knight: Difference, Kind, and Emblem -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Shows how a rhetorical tradition was transformed into a textual one and ends with a discussion of the relationship between discourse and society.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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