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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457900403321

Autore

Vance Eugene

Titolo

From topic to tale [[electronic resource] ] : logic and narrativity in the Middle Ages / / Eugene Vance ; foreward by Wlad Godzich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1987

ISBN

0-8166-8247-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 47

Disciplina

841/.1

Soggetti

Arthurian romances - History and criticism

Knights and knighthood in literature

Logic, Medieval

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500

Rhetoric, Medieval

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Shows how a rhetorical tradition was transformed into a textual one and ends with a discussion of the relationship between discourse and society.