Obscure Language, Unclear Literature: Theory and Practice from Quintilian to the Enlightenment
- Author / Editor
- Mehtonen, Päivi.
Obscure Language, Unclear Literature: Theory and Practice from Quintilian to the Enlightenment
- Published
- Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2003.
- Physical Description
- 228 pp.
- Description
- A "premodern conceptual history" of obscurity in literature, with emphasis on rhetorical traditions, philosophy, and exegesis. Includes comments on Mel and Th as literary examples of the "vices of narration" described in rhetorical handbooks.
- Contributor
- MacGilleon, Robert, trans.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Tale of Melibee