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Typus and Poetik: Studien zur Bedeutungsvermittlung in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters.(Book Review)
The Modern Language Review
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October 1, 2005|
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Typus and Poetik: Studien zur Bedeutungsvermittlung in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters. By TIMOTHY R. JACKSON. (Beihefte zum Euphorion, 45) Heidelberg: Winter. 2003. xii+326 pp. 48 [euro]. ISBN 3-8253-1540-1.
The essays contained in this volume were composed over a span of almost twenty years, and they employ a variety of theoretical approaches, yet there is a consistent thread running through all of them-their interest in the detail of poetic composition. Jackson addresses some of the big issues in medieval poetics: What is truth? What is beauty? What is poetic ...
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