Une Muse savante ?

Poésie et savoir, du Roman de la Rose jusqu’aux grands rhétoriqueurs

by Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay

Book cover: Une Muse savante ?

Extent: 327 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Le lyrisme de la fin du Moyen Âge

Series volume number: 16, 3

Language: English, French

Paperback (Published)

(November 2014)

ISBN: 9782812432668

6.18 x 9.49 inches

Price: $53.00

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Hardback (Published)

(March 2025)

ISBN: 9782812432675

6.18 x 9.49 inches

Price: $108.00

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By studying texts composed between 1270 and 1530, the authors show that poetry was a privileged way of transmitting knowledge and discussing key concepts of subjectivity, corporality, and time. Verse not only survived faced with the expansion of prose but flourished and acquired an additional truth.

  • By (author) Adrian Armstrong
  • By (author) Sarah Kay
  • Translated by Roxane Feunette
  • Series edited by Alvaro Barbieri
  • Series edited by Francis Gingras
  • Series edited by Giovanni Palumbo
  • Series edited by Richard Trachsler
  • Series edited by Jean-Claude Mühlethaler