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The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,162
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The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages (Hardcover): Albrecht Classen

The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)

Albrecht Classen

Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks

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Contents:
Introduction, Albert Classen. Varying degrees of light - Bonaventure and the medieval book of nature, Ashlynn K.Pai. Reading that transforms: Virgil's hero reborn in 12th-century vernacular representations, Raymond Cormier. Reading and the book: frame and story in the old French Dolopathos, Penny Simons. The book and reading in medieval high German literature, Albert Classen. Book metaphors in the textual community, Jean-Marie Kauth. The language of the text: authorship and textuality in Pearl, The Divine Comedy and Piers Plowman, Burt Kimmelman. Building Christian narrative: the rhetoric of knowledge, revelation and interpretation in Libro de Apolonio, Patricia E.Grieve. Chaucer's literate characters reading their texts - interpreting infinite regression, or the narcissus syndrome, Jean E.Jost. Story, picture and reading in Wynkyn de Worde's Vitas Patrum, Sue Ellen Holbrook. Reading the virgin reader, David Linton. Maria Legens-Maria Legere. St Marys as an ideal reader and St Mary as a textbook, Winfred Frey.

General

Imprint: Crc Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks
Release date: April 1999
First published: 1999
Editors: Albrecht Classen
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-0-8153-3230-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Literacy
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN: 0-8153-3230-0
Barcode: 9780815332305

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