This book proposes a new approach to the problems of the text's meaning and aesthetic unity. A stylistic and semantic analysis of the text's discourse identifies the poet's compositional method and reveals pragmatic and truth-conditional features which lead the reader outwards into the world of the text's reception. This analysis and its corollaries form the basis for an anthropology of the text's reception which situate it between the surviving social institutions of Celtic Gaul and those of Germanic feudalism. The notorious contradictions and discontinuities of the text are identified as consequences of its liminal status between competing paradigms of social ordering.
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«Pensom enriches both our appreciation of the craft of Béroul and our understanding of the material from which the version grew.» (Leslie C. Brook, Romanische Forschungen)
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Höhe: 14 cm
Breite: 21 cm
Dicke: 6 mm
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978-3-906753-49-2 (9783906753492)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Author: Roger Pensom was born in 1939. He was educated at Manchester University where he received the degrees of B.A. and M.A., specializing in Old French language and literature and linguistics. He was appointed in 1966 to a lectureship at Exeter University from which he received a doctorate in 1980. He is presently University Lecturer in Old French Language and Literature in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College. He has published The Literary Technique of the Chanson de Roland (Geneva, 1982) and articles on topics in French language and literature.
