Medieval Imagination

by Douglas Kelly

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299076105
• ISBN13: 9780299076108
• Release Date: September 1978
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"