Le message et sa fiction : la communication par messager dans la littérature française des XII[e] et XIII[e] siècles
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Le message et sa fiction : la communication par messager dans la littérature française des XII[e] et XIII[e] siècles
（University of California publications in modern philology, v. 128）
University of California Press, c1998
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 359-386
Includes indexes
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This reappraisal of the role of medieval messengers as "language conveyors" represents a general survey of messengers, diplomatic envoys and message scenes in the Medieval French literary corpus (12th- and 13th-century epics, romances, lyric poetry and fabliaux). The author addresses a variety of issues central to the problematics of literature and culture in the French Middle Ages and beyond, for example, the conveyance and distortion of oral messages; issues of authentication, veracity and falsification of written messages; and issues in writing and reading letters. He also discusses literary fiction as a craft representing a mixed message of truth and lies, and approaches the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes literary analysis, socio-historical studies and linguistics and communication theories.
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