Title Terms of response : language and audience in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theory / Robert L. Montgomery

Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages) Contents Baroque surprise : the pleasures of metaphoric form -- "Contre le baroque" : Bouhours and Boileau -- Addison and the "helps and ornaments of art" -- "The irregular fancy of the world" -- "An unaccountable pleasure" : the attractions of tragedy -- Connections and discontinuities : Du Bos, Condillac, and Diderot Summary This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanish epics to an ancient myth. He shows how the myth of the initiation of the young warrior, shown by Georges Dumžil to be fundamental to the belief systems of widely distributed Indo-European peoples, was variously adapted to shape the action of texts including the Siete Infantes de Lara, the Mocedades de Rodrigo, and the Poema de Mio Cid, in which it accounts for the peculiar behavior of the Infantes de Carrin̤. Montgomery also connects the same mythic tradition to works as diverse as Tristan and the Chanson de Roland. In a preliterate society, the oral presentation of this archetypal lore required a special language capable of re-creating the ritualized behavior of the epic characters and maintaining the ceremonial tone of the performance. Focusing on the Poema de Mio Cid, Montgomery examines the ways in which the poetic language worked to evoke a feeling of group unity that absorbed the audience and still works its spell upon today's readers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda Print version record Subject Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Authors and readers -- History -- 17th century Authors and readers -- History -- 18th century Criticism -- History -- 17th century Criticism -- History -- 18th century Reader-response criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. Authors and readers Criticism Reader-response criticism Letterkunde. Reader-response criticism. Littérature -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc. Littérature -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc. Esthétique de la réception. Critique -- 17e siècle. Critique -- 18e siècle. Écrivains et lecteurs -- 17e siècle. Écrivains et lecteurs -- 18e siècle. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 90022296 ISBN 9780271075181 027107518X

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