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Eugene Vance; foreword by Wlad Godzich.
From Topic to Tale: Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages.

Published Minneapolis: Minnesota U.P., 1987.
Series: Theory & History of Literature, vol. 47.
ISBN 0816615365.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 151×227×10mm.
Page count: xxxiii,131pp.
Main language: English; quotations generally given in original language with an English translation.
Overall condition good: the covers on this copy are a little scuffed; a mild bump on the top outside corner; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 243g.

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Focuses particularly on Chrétien de Troyes.

Contents: From Grammatica to a poetics of the text; De voir dire mot le conjure — dialectics & fictive truth; Selfhood & substance in Erec & Enide; Topos & tale; Si est omo, est animal; From man-beast to lion-knight — difference, kind, & emblem.

Illustrations: 1 text figure
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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