Aspects of genre and type in pre-modern literary cultures. / / Bert Roest, Herman Vanstiphout.

This collection of studies is the result of a series of seminars organised by COMERS in 1996. The theme of generic problems has led to a variety of disciplines (Ancient Oriental, Classical, Medieval, Arabic, Middle Dutch...), of textual types (fables, historiography, comedies, Canon law.) and a vari...

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Superior document:Comers/ICOG Communications ; 1
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Place / Publishing House:Groningen, Netherlands : : Styx,, [1999]
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Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Comers/ICOG Communications ; 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Preface / Authors: Bert Roest and Herman Vanstiphout
  • Adam per Evam deceptus est, non Eva per Adam. Biblical Repertoria in Fourteenth-Century Canon Law. / Dirk Claes
  • Some Brave Attempts at Generic Classification in Premodern Arabic Literature. / Geert Jan van Gelder
  • Rigid Readings of Flexible Texts. The Case of Sixteenth-Century Comic Drama. / Femke Kramer
  • Medieval Historiography: About Generic Constraints and Scholarly Constructions. / Bert Roest
  • Boundless Papyri. / Monique van Rossum-Steenbeek
  • The Fable is Dead  Long Live the Fable! Or, is there any life after Genre? / Anda Schippers
  • "I Can Put Anything In Its Right Place". Generic and Typological Studies as Strategies for the Analysis and Evaluation of Mankind's Oldest Literature. / H.L.J. Vanstiphout
  • Continuity and Change in Mesopotamian Lexical Tradition. / Niek Veldhuis
  • When Phaedra Left the Tragic Stage: Generic Switches in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. / Maaike Zimmerman
  • Postscriptum / Authors: Bert Roest and Herman Vanstiphout.