The Conspiracy of Allusion: Description, Rewriting, and Authorship from Macrobius to Medieval Romance

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BRILL, 1999 - 313 Seiten
Chrétien de Troyes's reference to Macrobius on the art of description is indicative of the link between the vernacular literary tradition of rewriting and the Latin tradition of imitation. Crucial to this study are writings that bridge the span between elementary school exercises in imitation and the masterpieces of the art in Latin and French. The book follows the development of the medieval art of imitation through Macrobius and commentaries on Horace's Art of Poetry and then applies it to the interpretation of works on the Trojan War, consent in love and marriage, and lyric and vernacular insertions.

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Introduction
1
Chapter One Macrobius in the High Middle Ages
7
Anthologies Florilegia and libri manuales
23
Saturnalia Manuscripts to the Early Thirteenth
33
Invention inventio
66
Small Units of Discourse
73
Chapter Three Bridge Works in and between the Medieval
79
Joseph of Exeters
121
Chapter Five The Issue and Topics of Consent in Eneas
171
Chapter Six New Modes of Description in Romance
213
Conclusion
257
Indices
293
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Douglas Kelly, Ph.D. (1962) in French, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Professor Emeritus of French and Medieval Studies there. He has published extensively on medieval literature, especially on medieval poetics and its use for the interpretation of French and Latin writing.

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