2007
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Jean Vincensini, « Genres et « conscience » narrative au Moyen Âge. L'exemple du récit idyllique », Littérature, ID : 10670/1.e4ac8f...
The Example of the Idyll The idyllic genre seems a perfect case study for Zumthor’s warnings about one of the “neurotic” aspects of medieval studies, namely the fuzziness of definitions of genre in, or applied to, the period. But recourse to anthropological fundamentals yields, through the example of Paris et Vienne (1432), three paradigmatic elements both differentiating and defining the genre – and enabling a list of its exemplars to be drawn.