Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly LoveUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1978 - 330 pages Medieval Imagination examines the poetry of courtly love with unprecedented thoroughness. Douglas Kelly offers detailed analyses of numerous works within a historical, conceptual, and artistic framework to establish the underlying concept of Imagination in courtly poetry. He capitalizes the term to underscore its medieval sense: the poet's invention of significant images to represent a certain conception of truth. Imagination, thus, in its metaphorical sense of providing an idea with a suitable representation in an image, permitted an allegory of love in romance and dream vision from the twelfth century on. The techniques employed in Imagination--allegory, personification, metonymy, synecdoche--are analyzed in detail as amplification. In addition to his complete coverage of the better-known poets like Guillaume de Lorris, Machaut, and Froissart, Kelly examines the work of such rarely treated writers as René d'Anjou and Oton de Grandson, as well as the Echecs amoureux and related medieval Latin writings. The concluding chapters including Charles d'Orléans, Chartier, and Christine de Pisan. The later chapters are a rare boon to French scholars in providing a survey of Middle French courtly literature, a little-explored area of scholarship. Kelly's documentation is a fresh and useful contribution to the interpretation of this too-often neglected period.The flower of medieval French culture, the poetry of courtly love, is examined with an unprecedented thoroughness in this work. Douglas Kelly offers detailed analyses of numerous works within a historical, conceptual, and artistic framework. |
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... possible and , by its cogency , effective . No wonder that this common element became the focus of concentrated attention , and the literature remark- able for abstraction transcending not only individuality and originality , but also ...
... possible and , by its cogency , effective . No wonder that this common element became the focus of concentrated attention , and the literature remark- able for abstraction transcending not only individuality and originality , but also ...
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... possible connotations , of the vis verbi , provides the personification with fields of action that may be appropriate to the sustained reading of its allegorical signification . It is this very ambiguity that made possible Jean de ...
... possible connotations , of the vis verbi , provides the personification with fields of action that may be appropriate to the sustained reading of its allegorical signification . It is this very ambiguity that made possible Jean de ...
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... possible discursive meaning in different settings . A number of readings are possible at different stages in the narrative , but no single one or group suffices to circumscribe the Rose . It is no longer merely an allegorical Image . It ...
... possible discursive meaning in different settings . A number of readings are possible at different stages in the narrative , but no single one or group suffices to circumscribe the Rose . It is no longer merely an allegorical Image . It ...
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Rhetoric and Poetry | 3 |
Allegory of Love | 13 |
Imagination | 26 |
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