Ratio and invention : a study of medieval lyric and narrative / Robert R. Edwards
1989, 1st edition. Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #421287
ISBN: 0826512313
Physical description; xxi, 193 p. ; 24 cm. Contents; Interchapter 1. Medieval lyric -- 1. Contrary motions : musical aesthetic and the ideal landscape -- 2. Phantasy : vision, desire, and poetry -- 3. Phantasms : the secular vision of lyric -- Interchapter 2. Narration and invention -- 4. History, narrative, and design in the 'Chanson de Roland' -- 5. Invention and closure in Chrétien's 'Yvain' -- 6. Invention and poetic emblems : 'Partonopeu de Blois' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' -- 7. The failure of invention : Chaucer's Squire's tale. Subjects; Poetry, Medieval History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500. Invention (Rhetoric) History To 1500. Criticism History.
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