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From Topic to Tale: Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages
by Vance, Eugene
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0816615365
- ISBN 13
- 9780816615360
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About This Item
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. CF4 - A trade paperback book enscribed by the author in good+ to very good- condition. Enscribed to the original owner by the author in black ink on the half title page. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some very light creasing on the front cover plus there is some very, very light edge wear along the free edges of the covers. This is a title in the publisher's Theory and History of Literature series. With a foreword by Wlad Dogzich. A book about the transition from a Latinate culture to one based on a vernacular langue that took place from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The author focuses on the rise of French vernacular literacy in the 12th cneutry at the same time that logic came into vogue with an emphasis on the expression of these two tendencies in the work of Chrétien de Troyes. Endnotes, indexed, 131p.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- From Topic to Tale: Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages
- Author
- Vance, Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0816615365
- ISBN 13
- 9780816615360
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Medieval Literature Medaeval Literature Literary History Literary Criticism Intellectual History Cultural Theory Narrative Poetry Chretien MIddle Ages Latinate Culture Vernacular Language Vernacular Culture Orality Literacy Social T
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / History of Literature; Literature / Medieval Literature; Literature / Renaissance Literature;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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