Image and imagination [[electronic resource] ] : picturing the Old French epic / / Sandra Malicote
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| Autore: |
Malicote Sandra
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| Titolo: |
Image and imagination [[electronic resource] ] : picturing the Old French epic / / Sandra Malicote
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : University Press of America, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 840.1 |
| 841.0320901 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Chansons de geste - History and criticism |
| Epic poetry, French - History and criticism | |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval - France | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Aiol, Illumination and the Poetics of the Epic; Chapter Two. The Illuminated Geste de Saint Gille, Pictor and the Past; Chapter Three. Parody, Illumination and Genre Renewal; Chapter Four. Roman, Estoire, Exemplum: Illumination of Epic Compilation; Chapter Five. Illuminating the Old French Epic: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Franco-Flemish Examples; Figures; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson de geste examines the relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the medieval understanding of the imagination. The study focuses on the epic cycle 'the geste of Saint Gille,' including Aiol and Elie de Saint Gille. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Image and imagination |
| ISBN: | 1-282-47995-4 |
| 9786612479953 | |
| 0-7618-4833-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780848403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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