The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages

Cover
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 2: The Middle Ages......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Alastair Minnis & Ian Johnson: Introduction......Page 18
Part I: The liberal arts and the arts of Latin textuality......Page 30
1. Martin Irvine with David Thomson: Grammatica and literary theory......Page 32
1. The history and development of grammatica......Page 34
John of Salisbury’s model for grammatical studies......Page 39
From ars grammatica to sermocinalis scientia......Page 41
2. Linguistic theory: speech and writing......Page 47
3. Theories of metaphor and allegory......Page 50
4. Curriculum and reading......Page 54
2. J. J. Murphy: The arts of poetry and prose......Page 59
The Ars versificatoria of Matthew of Vendôme......Page 61
Geoffrey of Vinsauf......Page 65
Gervase of Melkley......Page 68
John of Garland......Page 69
Eberhard the German......Page 75
2. Literary implications of the arts of poetry......Page 77
3. Creativity through form: the modes of amplification......Page 80
3. Ronald G. Witt: The arts of letter-writing......Page 85
1. The early Italian development of ars dictaminis textbooks......Page 86
2. The twelfth-century Italian letter......Page 87
3. Early dictamen in France and the Italian golden age, 1190–1250......Page 90
4. Ars dictaminis outside Italy after 1200......Page 95
5. The letter as literary form......Page 97
6. Ars dictaminis and humanism in Italy......Page 99
4. Siegfried Wenzel: The arts of preaching......Page 101
Part II: The study of classical authors......Page 114
5. Winthrop Wetherbee: From late Antiquity to the twelfth century......Page 116
6. Vincent Gillespie: From the twelfth century to c. 1450......Page 162
1. Learning to read wisely: the grammar-school curriculum......Page 167
2. Reading minds: medieval poetic theory......Page 177
3. Reading for the sense: Florilegia, friars and the rise of the compiler......Page 195
4. Reading under the covers: Ovid......Page 203
5. Reading between the lines: the blurring of the genres......Page 223
Tragedy and epic......Page 224
Satire and comedy......Page 240
Part III: Textual psychologies: imagination, memory, pleasure......Page 254
7. Alastair Minnis: Medieval imagination and memory......Page 256
8. Glending Olson: The profits of pleasure......Page 292
Part IV: Vernacular critical traditions: the early Middle Ages......Page 306
1. Poetic theory......Page 308
2. The evidence of narrative prose......Page 319
10. Ananya Jahanara Kabir: Anglo-Saxon textual attitudes......Page 327
11. John L. Flood: Literary theory and practice in early-medieval Germany......Page 341
Alliterative verse......Page 342
Charlemagne......Page 344
Otfrid of Weißenburg and rhyming verse......Page 345
Notker Teutonicus......Page 348
1. Early poetry......Page 350
2. The poets of the princes c. 1100–1282......Page 357
3. Prose tales and translations......Page 360
13. Margaret Clunies Ross: Criticism and literary theory in Old Norse-Icelandic......Page 362
Part V: Vernacular critical traditions: the late Middle Ages......Page 378
14. Ralph Hanna, Tony Hunt, R. G. Keightley, Alastair Minnis & Nigel F. Palmer: Latin commentary tradition and vernacular literature......Page 380
1. Translating text and gloss......Page 381
2. Elaborating the gloss......Page 386
3. Translations of commentaries, and new vernacular commentaries......Page 400
4. Commentary and controversy over translation......Page 409
5. Commentary and vernacular creativity......Page 417
6. Commentary and vernacular authority......Page 431
15. Kevin Brownlee, Tony Hunt, Ian Johnson, Nigel F. Palmer & James Simpson: Vernacular literary consciousness c. 1100–c. 1500: French, German and English evidence......Page 439
1. Sources......Page 441
Patronage......Page 448
Addressing the audience......Page 450
The effect of literature......Page 452
Audience and meaning......Page 459
3. Rhetoric: composition, style and versification......Page 464
Words and music......Page 468
Arts of the ‘Second Rhetoric’......Page 472
The distortions of rhyme......Page 478
4. Minstrels, makers and poets......Page 480
16. Simon Gaunt & John Marshall: Occitan grammars and the art of troubadour poetry......Page 489
1. The trobar of the troubadours......Page 490
2. Grammarians and biographers......Page 499
17. Julian Weiss: Literary theory and polemic in Castile, c. 1200–c. 1500......Page 513
18. Nigel F. Palmer: Literary criticism in Middle High German literature......Page 550
1. The bardic grammar......Page 566
2. Bardic contentions......Page 571
Part VI: Latin and vernacular in Italian literary theory......Page 576
20. Zygmunt G. Barański: Dante Alighieri: experimentation and (self-)exegesis......Page 578
21. Zygmunt G. Barański: The Epistle to Can Grande......Page 600
Postscript......Page 606
22. Steven Botterill: The Trecento commentaries on Dante’s Commedia......Page 607
23. Martin McLaughlin: Latin and vernacular from Dante to the age of Lorenzo (1321–c. 1500)......Page 629
24. David Robey: Humanist views on the study of poetry in the early Italian Renaissance......Page 643
25. Martin McLaughlin: Humanist criticism of Latin and vernacular prose......Page 665
Part VII: Byzantine literary theory and criticism......Page 684
26. Thomas M. Conley: Byzantine criticism and the uses of literature......Page 686
1. Grounds and aims of criticism......Page 687
2. The first Byzantine ‘humanist’: Photios......Page 689
3. Arethas to Doxapatres......Page 692
4. Critic as careerist: Michael Psellos......Page 695
5. The Comnenian era (1081–1204)......Page 697
6. Recovery and decline......Page 703
Conclusion......Page 708
Introduction......Page 710
Primary sources......Page 714
Secondary sources......Page 723
Primary sources......Page 739
Secondary sources......Page 745
Primary sources......Page 764
Secondary sources......Page 767
Primary sources......Page 771
Secondary sources......Page 772
Secondary sources......Page 775
Literary theory and practice in early-medieval Germany......Page 777
Literary criticism in Welsh before c. 1300......Page 780
Criticism and literary theory in Old Norse-Icelandic......Page 783
Latin commentary tradition and vernacular literature......Page 786
Vernacular literary consciousness c. 1100–c. 1500: French, German and English evidence......Page 795
Occitan grammars and the art of troubadour poetry......Page 802
Literary theory and polemic in Castile, c. 1200–c. 1500......Page 806
Literary criticism in Middle High German literature......Page 811
Later literary criticism in Wales......Page 814
Latin and vernacular in Italian literary theory......Page 815
Byzantine literary theory and criticism......Page 828
Index......Page 833