{"product_id":"from-song-to-book-9781501746666","title":"From Song to Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of \u003ci\u003echanson courtoise\u003c\/i\u003e, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-consciously literary tradition of Old French narrative poetry. She demonstrates that the evolution of the lyrical romance and \u003ci\u003edit\u003c\/i\u003e, narrative poems which incorporate thematic and rhetorical elements of the lyric, was responsible for a progressive redefinition of lyric poetry as a written medium and the emergence of an explicitly written literary tradition uniting lyric and narrative poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuot first investigates the nature of the vernacular book in the thirteenth and fourte\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409340735831,"sku":"9781501746666","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501746666.jpg?v=1730506480","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-song-to-book-9781501746666","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}