Medieval literary theory and criticism, c.1100-c.1375 : the commentary-tradition

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Medieval literary theory and criticism, c.1100-c.1375 : the commentary-tradition

edited by A.J. Minnis and A.B. Scott, with the assistance of David Wallace

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988

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Bibliography: p. 521-524

Includes index

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This anthology of texts in translation covers one of the most important branches of medieval literary theory and criticism, the commentary-tradition, in one of the most significant periods of its development. The majority of the texts are here translated for the first time. They offer discussion of such topics as fiction and fable (in classical poetry and in the Bible); the ethical effects and purpose of literature; authorship and authority; the function of biography in literary interpretation; stylistic and didactic modes of writing; literary form and structure; allegory and literal-historical sense; symbolism; imagination and imagery; the moralization of classical texts; the status of poetry within the hierarchy of the human arts and sciences; and the prestige and purpose of vernacular literature. The editors have attempted to be representative, illustrating the continuities and the new developments, the typical and the exceptional, the well-known and the relatively obscure. The selections are fully annotated, and provided with introductions which form a linked series of essays towards the history of medieval literary theory and criticism.

目次

  • General introduction - the significance of the medieval commentary-tradition. An anthology of literary prefaces - introductions to the authors
  • a critical colloquy - Conrad of Hirsau
  • scriptural allegory and authority - Hugh of Saint-Victor, Peter Abelard and Peter Lombard
  • poetic fiction and truth - William of Conches, Bernard Silvester, Arnulf of Orleans and Ralph of Longchamps
  • the Dionysian imagination - Thomas Gallus and Robert Grosseteste
  • scriptural science and signification - from "Alexander's Sum of Theology" to Nicholas of Lyre
  • placing the "Poetics" - Hermann the German, an anonymous question on the nature of poetry
  • updated approaches to the classics - William of Aragon, Nicholas Trevet, Giovanni del Virgilio and Pierre Bersuire
  • the transformation of critical tradition - Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
  • assessing the new author - commentary on Dante.

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