«Hoster la contraincte de retoricque»: notes de lecture sur le “Nouveau Répertoire de mises en prose (xive-xvie siècle)”
The thorough updating and reshaping of Doutrepont’s Répertoire de mises en prose recently published by Maria Colombo Timelli, Barbara Ferrari, Anne Schoysman and François Suard, is the starting point for this brief consideration on the process of prosification at the end of the Middle Ages. Perusing...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/studifrancesi, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Français |
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Studi Francesi
2016
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | The thorough updating and reshaping of Doutrepont’s Répertoire de mises en prose recently published by Maria Colombo Timelli, Barbara Ferrari, Anne Schoysman and François Suard, is the starting point for this brief consideration on the process of prosification at the end of the Middle Ages. Perusing the prologues edited in the new Répertoire shows that authors whose verse works were turned into prose had usually fallen into oblivion (even Chrétien de Troyes). Fifteenth-century remanieurs argue that to be rescued, earlier texts need to be brought up to date: their language modernized and their form changed to suit the tastes of a new audience. Modern readers, so they say, like prose better than verse. Verse is obscure and prolix, while prose is elegant and unconstrained by rhetoric. |
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