From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry

by Sylvia Huot

Book Overview

As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501746669
• ISBN13: 9781501746666
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher