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Minnis, Alastair J., Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages, Filadèlfia, University of Pennsylvania Press (Middle Ages Series), 2010 (3a ed. rev.), xlv + 323 pp.
- Resum
- It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Alastair Minnis asks, "Is it not better to search again for a conceptual equipment which is at once historically valid and theoretically illuminating?" Minnis has found such writings in the glosses and commentaries on the authoritative Latin writers studied in schools and universities between 1100 and 1400. The prologues to these commentaries provide valuable insight into the medieval theory of authorship. Of special significance is scriptural exegesis, for medieval scholars found the Bible the most difficult text to describe appropriately and accurately. Alastair Minnis is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University.
- Matèries
- Història de la literatura
Història de la cultura
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/1319.html
Ed. original: Londres, Scolar Press, 1984, xvii + 323 pp.
2a ed.: Aldershot, Wildwood House, 1988, xxv + 323 pp.
A partir de la tesi doctoral de l'autor: Medieval discussions of the role of the author: a preliminary survey, with particular reference to Chaucer and Gower, Queen's University of Belfast, 1976.
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