Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: The German Tradition, 800-1300, in Its European Context

by Walter Haug

Book Overview

The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set an agenda for the study of medieval literary theory. Rather than seeing vernacular writers' reflections on their art, as found in prologues, epilogues and interpolations in literary texts, as merely deriving from established Latin traditions, Walter Haug shows that they marked the gradual emancipation of an independent vernacular poetics that went hand in hand with changing narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521027993
• ISBN13: 9780521027991
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"