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Alastair
Minnis and Ian Johnson, eds.
The
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages.
Cambridge
U.P., 2005.
ISBN-10:
052130007X | ISBN-13: 9780521300070.
Hardback.
228 x
152 mm.
882pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £100.00
This is the first-ever
history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle
Ages that covers all the main traditions in Latin, the major European
vernaculars, and Byzantine Greek. Starting with the study of grammar
and the formal 'arts' of poetry, letter-writing and preaching, it
proceeds to offer a full description of the Latin commentary tradition
on classical and classicizing literature, followed by explanations of
medieval views on literary imagination and memory, and the ways in
which certain texts were believed to achieve moral profit through
pleasure. Subsequent essays explore the diverse theoretical and
critical traditions which developed in the vernacular languages,
ranging from Medieval Irish to Old Norse, Occitan to Middle High
German, concentrating particularly on Dante and his commentators and
Italian humanist criticism. The volume concludes with an examination of
the attitudes to literature and its uses in Greek Byzantium.
Contents
Introduction Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson; Part I. The Liberal Arts
and the Arts of Latin Textuality: 1. Grammatica and literary theory
Martin Irvine with David Thomson; 2. The arts of poetry and prose J. J.
Murphy; 3. The arts of letter writing Ronald G. Witt; 4. The arts of
preaching Siegfried Wenzel; Part II. The Study of Classical Authors: 5.
From late antiquity until the twelfth century Winthrop Wetherbee; 6.
From the twelfth century until c.1500 Vincent Gillespie; Part III.
Textual Psychologies: Imagination, Memory, Pleasure: 7. Literary
imagination and memory Alastair Minnis; 8. The profits of pleasure
Glending Olson; Part IV. Vernacular Critical Traditions: The Early
Middle Ages: 9. Medieval Irish literary theory and criticism Patrick
Sims-Williams and Erich Poppe; 10. Anglo-Saxon textual attitudes Ananya
Jahanara Kabir; 11. Literary theory and practice in early medieval
Germany John Flood; 12. Literary criticism in Welsh before c.1300
Marged Haycock; 13. Criticism and literary theory in Old
Norse-Icelandic Margaret Clunies Ross; Part V. Vernacular Critical
Traditions: The Late Middle Ages: 14. Latin commentary tradition and
vernacular literature Alastair Minnis, Ralph Hanna, Tony Hunt, Nigel
Palmer and Ronald Keightley; 15. Vernacular literary consciousness:
English, French, German Kevin Brownlee, Alastair Minnis, Tony Hunt, Ian
Johnson and Nigel Palmer; 16. Occitan grammars and the art of
Troubadour poetry Simon Gaunt and John Marshall; 17. Literary theory
and polemic in Castile, c.1200–c.1500 Julian Weiss; 18. Literary
criticism in Middle High German literature Nigel Palmer; 19. Later
literary criticism in Wales Gruffydd Aled Williams; Part VI. Latin and
Vernacular in Italian Literary Theory: 20. Dante Alighieri:
Experimentation and (self-)exegesis Zygmunt G. Baranski; 21. The
Epistle to Can Grande Zygmunt G. Baranski; 22. The Trecento
commentaries on Dante’s Commedia Steven Botterill; 23. Latin and
vernacular from Dante to the age of Lorenzo (1321–c.1500) Martin
McLaughlin; 24. Humanist views on the study of Italian poetry in the
early Italian Renaissance David Robey; 25. Humanist criticism of Latin
and vernacular prose Martin McLaughlin; Part VII. Byzantine Literary
Theory and Criticism: 26. Byzantine literary criticism and the uses of
literature Thomas Conley.
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