La mesure du monde: Représentation de l'espace au Moyen Age (Poétique) (French Edition)

Reference

Zumthor, Paul

Foreign Language Study & Reference

SEUIL

This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past--a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen--to pursue an overseas empire that led to great financial wealth and a highly sophisticated cultivation of the arts. This classic work first appeared in English translation in 1963.

Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland

History

Europe

Stanford University Press

Rembrandt's life coincided with what the Dutch refer to as their "golden age." This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past - a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen - to pursue an overseas empire that led to great financial wealth and a highly sophisticated cultivation of the arts. This classic work first appeared in English translation in 1963. Among the myriad topics covered are homes, gardens, clothing, food, religion, childrearing, education, medicine, sports and games, holidays and celebrations, painters, musicians, writers, the theater, publishing, aristocrats, workers, peasants, the merchant fleet, the armed forces, trading and colonizing companies, fisheries, and the famous Holland dikes.

This book aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral, or spoken, poetry. Paul Zumthor, a literary theorist, discusses the development of oral poetry from antiquity to the present in all its aspects: the forms of oral poetry; the epic in the West, Africa and other parts of the globe; styles of performance across the world; roles played in oral poetry (the poet as interpreter, the listeners, the variable duration of oral poetry in time and space, etc.); and oral ritual actions from archaic times to the present.

Oral poetry: An introduction (Theory and history of literature)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

University of Minnesota Press

Oral Poetry: An Introduction (Volume 70) (Theory and History of Literature)

History & Criticism

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Text: English (translation) 
Original Language: French

Toward A Medieval Poetics

"La Lettre et la Voix. De la ""littérature"" médiévale"

Tenter une description systématique de la poésie médiévale en vue de l'intégrer à une Poétique générale où elle trouverait sa place spécifique - tel est le dessein que poursuit ici Paul Zumthor.\nUne première partie, théorique, pose les problèmes spécifiques de la "poéticité" médiévale : transmission orale, anonymat, "mouvance" des textes. L'auteur aborde ensuite de manière -descriptive et analytique les "modèles d'écriture", qui ne sont pas seulement des genres au sens classique du terme, mais de véritables types de discours : le grand chant courtois, les débuts du roman épique, les "jeux" qui sont à l'origine de notre théâtre.\nLe travail de Paul Zumthor met au jour la modernité de ce domaine si ancien, en dégageant cette idée-force que l'objet essentiel du discours médiéval n'est rien d'autre que ce discours lui-même, qui se fascine et se réjouit de son propre jeu. C'est ce que l'auteur appelle la circularité du Chant.

Essai de poétique médiévale (Points essais) (French Edition)

Zink, Michel

Words, Language & Grammar

Parler du Moyen Age (Collection Critique) (French Edition)

Editions de Minuit

La traversée: Roman (Collection Fictions) (French Edition)

Genre Fiction

L'HEXAGONE

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