Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in His Cultural Context

Language: English

Published by Clarendon Press, 2006

0199290261 / 9780199290260

Series: Book 5 of 36 - Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs

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2006 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear, small tear to dustjacket else very good condition. In early humanist France two debating traditions converge: one literary and vernacular, one intellectual and conducted mainly via Latin epistles. Debate and Dialogue demonstrates how the two fuse in the vernacular verse debates of Alain Chartier, secretary and notary at the court of Charles VI, and later, Charles VII. In spite of considerable contemporary praise for Chartier, his work has remained largely neglected by modern critics. This study shows how Chartier participates in a movement that invests a vernacular poetic with moral and political significance, inspiring such social engagements as the fifteenth-century poetic exchange known as the Querelle de la Belle Dame sans mercy. Emma Cayley sets Chartier in the context of a late-medieval debating climate through the use of a new model of participatory poetics which she terms the collaborative debating community. This is a dynamic and generative social grouping based on Brian Stock's model of the textual community, as well as Pierre Bourdieu's sociological categories of field, habitus, and capital. This dialectical model takes account of the socio-cultural context of literary production, and suggests the fundamentally competitive yet collaborative nature of late-medieval poetry. Cayley draws an analogy here between literary debates and game-playing, engaging with the game theory of Johan Huizinga and Roger Caillois, and discusses the manuscript context of such literary debates as the materialization of this poetic game. The collaborative debating community postulated affords unique insights into the dynamics of late-medieval compositional and reading practices. Contents: Introduction 1. ‘Je vous demande par la force du jeu’ The Literary, Legal, and Intellectual Antecedents of Late Medieval Debate 2. ‘Tu recites, je replique; et quant nous avons fait et fait, tout ne vault riens’ Explorations of a Debating Climate in Early Humanist France 3. ‘Clerc excellent, orateur magnifique’ Alain Chartier and the Rise of a Vernacular Humanist Rhetoric 4. ‘La vérité du jeu’ Collaborative Debating Communities in Late Medieval France I. Text and Context: Collaborative Invention and Creative Modes in the Querelle de la Belle Dame sans mercy II. ‘Le jeu des eschaz’: Players and Spaces of Play in the Belle Dame sans mercy Cycle Manuscripts Conclusion Appendix A Table of Contents of Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 3521, and 3523 Appendix B Manuscript Tables.…

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Title
Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in His Cultural Context
Author
Cayley, Emma
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Publication year
2006
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Good
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Good
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Hardcover
Language
English
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0199290261
ISBN 13
9780199290260
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463 grams
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13.72 centimeters width by 21.34 centimeters height by 2.54 centimeters depth
Series
Book 5 of 36: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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