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From topic to tale : logic and narrativity in the Middle Ages / Eugene Vance ; foreward by Wlad Godzich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vance, Eugene.
- Series:
- Theory and history of literature ; v. 47.
- Theory and history of literature ; v. 47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arthurian romances--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- Knights and knighthood in literature.
- Logic, Medieval.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century--Technique.
- Chrétien.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shows how a rhetorical tradition was transformed into a textual one and ends with a discussion of the relationship between discourse and society.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816682478
- 081668247X
- OCLC:
- 476092939
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