Toward a medieval poetics - Zumthor, Paul 1915-; Bennett, Philip (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1992)
Part I: Problems and methods
Chapter 1. The mist of time:
History and historicity - The text and its audience - The classical dimension - Formation and manifestation
Chapter 2. Poet and text
Anonymity and textual instability - Tradition - "Types" - Rhythm as a factor - A new song
Chapter 3. The poetic message
Poetry and meaning - Typologies - Verbal extravagance - Levels of meaning
Chapter 4. Hierarchical organization
Classes and genres - Forms of discourse - Distribution
Part II. Compositonal modes
Chapter 5. Courtly love lyric
The chanson - A song from the heart - Signs of coherence - Function and meaning
Chapter 6. Echoes of song
Contrast and contamination in the register - Variety of expression - The system under change - Into a new world
Chapter 7. Song and story
Narrative song - The survival of forms - Sung narrative - The epic
Chapter 8. From romance to novella
Shaping history - The romance model - The rose and the fox - The closed circle of time
Chapter 9. The triumph of the word
Dits - The discourse explodes
Chapter 10. Dialogue and theater
The stage message - The great play
Afterword
Annex: Three moments in history
The Chansons de geste - The courtly phenomenon - Chrestien de Troyes
Prijevod djela: Essai de poétique médiévale.
Bibliografija: str. 433-455.
Kazalo
Keywords: French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Poetics -- History -- To 1500.; Rhetoric, Medieval; francusko pjesništvo -- do 1500; teorija književnosti; poetika; srednjovjekovna poetika