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Author Montgomery, Robert Langford.

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

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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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.
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Subject Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Literature, Modern.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Authors and readers -- History -- 17th century.
Authors and readers.
History.
Authors and readers -- History -- 18th century.
Criticism -- History -- 17th century.
Criticism.
Criticism -- History -- 18th century.
Reader-response criticism.
Reader-response criticism.
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Montgomery, Robert Langford. Terms of response. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1992 (DLC) 90022296 (OCoLC)22735025
ISBN 9780271075181 (electronic book)
027107518X (electronic book)
0271007648
9780271007649
Music No. MWT11635846