LEADER 04221nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910456556603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6106-5 010 $a0-8014-6058-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460586 035 $a(CKB)2550000000037260 035 $a(OCoLC)742515533 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10478345 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538337 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538337 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10560041 035 $a(PQKB)10103245 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496044 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138225 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28703 035 $a(DE-B1597)478250 035 $a(OCoLC)979833556 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460586 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138225 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10478345 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681569 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000037260 100 $a20101214d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKnowing poetry$b[electronic resource] $everse in medieval France from The rose to the Rhe?toriqueurs /$fAdrian Armstrong & Sarah Kay ; with the participation of Rebecca Dixon ... [et al.] 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (261 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50287-0 311 $a0-8014-4973-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tPreface and Acknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I. Situating Knowledge -- $tChapter 1. Persistent Presence: Verse after Prose -- $tChapter 2. Poetry and History -- $tChapter 3. Poetry and Thought -- $tPart II. Transmitting and Shaping Knowledge -- $tChapter 4. Knowing the World in Verse Encyclopedias and Encyclopedic Verse -- $tChapter 5. Knowledge and the Practice of Poetry -- $tChapter 6. Textual Communities: Poetry and the Social Construction of Knowledge -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on new vitality. In France verse texts were produced, in both French and Occitan, with the explicit intention of transmitting encyclopedic, political, philosophical, moral, historical, and other forms of knowledge.In Knowing Poetry, Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay explore why and how verse continued to be used to transmit and shape knowledge in France. They cover the period between Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose (c. 1270) and the major work of Jean Bouchet, the last of the grands rhétoriqueurs (c. 1530). The authors find that the advent of prose led to a new relationship between poetry and knowledge in which poetry serves as a medium for serious reflection and self-reflection on subjectivity, embodiment, and time. They propose that three major works-the Roman de la rose, the Ovide moralisé, and Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy-form a single influential matrix linking poetry and intellectual inquiry, metaphysical insights, and eroticized knowledge. The trio of thought-world-contingency, poetically represented by Philosophy, Nature, and Fortune, grounds poetic exploration of reality, poetry, and community. 606 $aFrench poetry$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of, in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of, in literature. 676 $a841.109 700 $aArmstrong$b Adrian$0789459 701 $aKay$b Sarah$0168347 701 $aDixon$b Rebecca$01050489 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456556603321 996 $aKnowing poetry$92480302 997 $aUNINA