From Song to Book The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry

As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-cent...

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Main Author: Huot, Sylvia (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1987
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